Rachel Reeves’ Budget this week has several themes. She gave the City what it wanted. She spent almost nothing on anything that might add value
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Ultra-processed foods now make up at least half of all food sold in UK supermarkets. The Lancet has described them as a “corporate-engineered public health
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We’re told that the 1970s proved Keynesian economics failed, that inflation and unemployment could rise together, and only neoliberalism could fix it. But the truth
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The news is lying to you — and Britain is falling apart behind the scenes Every night, the lights are bright, the headlines loud —
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Nationalism can be a politics of care — about belonging, culture, and democracy — or a politics of control, built on fear and exclusion. In
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Martin Wolf has (once again) declared in the Financial Times that the fate of democracy rests on economic growth. As he said, in advance of
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Britain’s housing market has become a Ponzi scheme — built not on value, but on debt, illusion and exclusion. Successive governments have turned homes into
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This is the second in a new series that will be published daily during the rest of this week. The first quantum economics series and
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People know that the politicians they are now being presented with, most especially by Labour and the Tories, are, by and large, useless, without an
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