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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The Alternative Budget 2025, Part 10: tax reforms
Rachel Reeves will be presenting her Budget on November 26. I will be commenting on that Budget on the day on BBC Radio 2, and
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Is Britain at the peak of a great financial wave?
In this podcast, I talk with John Christensen, co-founder of the Tax Justice Network, about whether Britain can escape the final stage of a decades-long
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Economic questions: the John Christensen 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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We need capital controls
A commentator called Martin Clews posted this morning on this blog, saying: It is a real worry for me that any independent attempt by the
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Hot money
I was asked over the weekend if I would create a glossary entry on hot money, and given that this seemed both appropriate and not
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The Alternative Budget 2025, Part 9: Essential economic reforms
Rachel Reeves will be presenting her Budget on November 26, if the Labour government of which she is a part lasts that long. I will be
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The ultra-processed food crisis
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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