According to an opinion poll survey undertaken by Ipsos Mori in August, immigration is the biggest concern for people in the UK: There is a
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Labour has an economic problem – and appointing Minouche Shafik as Starmer’s senior economic adviser will not fix it. Shafik represents the neoliberal technocracy that
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As The Guardian has reported: Jamie Raskin, the ranking Democrat on the House judiciary committee, says we do have free speech in the UK. He
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The Global Initiative for Fiscal Transparency (GIFT), the International Budget Partnership (IBP) and the University of Sheffield have launched a major new training programme on
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A new commentator left the following comment on this blog after my most recent video. They started with a quote from me: ‘And bonds in
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Britain now has a very strange relationship with protest. Some protests are treated as if they were an existential threat to the state. Others, which
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History shows it clearly: austerity creates the conditions in which fascism thrives. When governments strip away public services, weaken safety nets and deepen inequality, people
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We put out this short version of this morning’s video this evening. Some might find the short version of use: Keynes vs MMT is one
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As I wrote in The National yesterday: SOMETIME in the middle of last week, it occurred to me that I have good reason to be
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