As The Guardian noted last night: The richest 500 individuals in the world added a record $2.2tn to their wealth in 2025, according to the Bloomberg
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Can you hear the music?
I watched Oppenheimer last night, not for the first time. And not for the first time, this exchange stood out: Niels Bohr: Algebra’s like sheet
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There are no free markets
Markets are not natural, spontaneous or free. They are legal, institutional and political creations of the state. Without law, money, regulation, wages, accounting standards and
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Glossary entry: social capital
As part of my work on capital, which in turn contributes to my thinking on the politics of care, and how it must be defined, I
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Glossary entry: human capital
As part of my work on capital, which in turn contributes to my thinking on the politics of care, and how it must be defined, I
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Glossary entry: Financial capital
As part of my work on capital, which in turn contributes to my thinking on the politics of care, and how it must be defined,
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Care matters, after all
The Guardian noted a new report from IPPR yesterday. The IPPR report summary is long-winded. The Guardian summary is worth noting in that case and
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Where we go next in 2026
2025 has been an extraordinary year for this channel. 30 million views. Hundreds of thousands of new subscribers. And, more importantly, a growing appetite for
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Glossary entry: Capital
I am in this post-Christmas period working on some of the definitions that will underpin my work on a project if care. Right now, this
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