Pope Leo XIV has issued his first major encyclical, and despite headlines claiming it is about AI, this video argues that its real subject is
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Tony Blair has published a 5,600-word essay through the Tony Blair Institute for Global Change this morning, which is being presented across the right-wing and
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The second part of my study on my pedagogy of content creation is on Substack this morning. Entitled The Broken World and Us, it looks
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The Richard J Murphy YouTube Channel Debate ammunition: The fear of losing Funding the Future | Issue | May 2026 Today’s topic Dear England, neoliberalism
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Everyone talks about inflation, government debt, economic growth and productivity. Politicians obsess about deficits. Economists argue about interest rates. Businesses complain about uncertainty. But what
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It was hot on Sunday morning. It was, in fact, so hot that neither Jacqueline nor I felt like going out birdwatching. We instead went
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For years, I was annoyed by the term TINA, which Margaret Thatcher coined and which stands for “there is no alternative”. I could find no
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I did wonder whether I should, over the weekend, write about the prospect of peace between the USA, Israel and Iran, and the potential reopening
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Reform is rising because trust in politics has collapsed. Economic insecurity, failing public services, unaffordable housing, insecure work and a loss of belonging have created
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