Rachel Reeves just gave us a masterclass in how NOT to run a budget. We got leaks, U-turns, political theatre, but almost no real economic
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Grace Blakeley has responded to my suggestion that she is wrong about  modern monetary theory (MMT), saying: Thanks Richard – this confirms my assumption that
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I think modern monetary theory (MMT) matters. That is not because it is perfect, because no theory is. Instead, it is because it explains something
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Grace Blakeley has replied to what I wrote about why parts of the left oppose modern monetary theory. In doing so, she has reinforced every
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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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