For 50 years, Western politics has rested on a single promise: growth. But what if that promise can no longer be kept? In this video,
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Big company chief executives don’t create value – they extract it
Chief executives in the UK and the US are now paid hundreds of times more than the people who actually create value in their companies.
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We really are living in dangerous times
I was talking to a friend about my post on Donald Trump, and his attack on European civilisation, made earlier today. The thought that kept
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Economic questions: the William Beveridge question
This is one of a series of posts that will ask what the most pertinent question raised by a prominent influencer of political economy might have been,
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Is Trump at war with Europe?
Has Donald Trump effectively declared war on Europe? His recent statements suggest exactly that. In this video, I explore how Trump’s racist rhetoric, his support
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The end of growth
The Office for National Statistics has published new GDP data this morning. As they put it: Main points In the three months to October 2025,
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Inequality is a political choice – and the UK keeps choosing it
The World Inequality Report 2026 opens with a sentence that should trouble anyone who cares about democracy or economic justice: Inequality is a political choice.
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Why do we need a politics of care?
Why do we need a politics of care? This is why we do: More than one in 20 people are homeless in parts of London,
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Economic questions: the James Tobin question
This is one of a series of posts that will ask what the most pertinent question raised by a prominent influencer of political economy might have been,
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