Zack Polanski has emphatically won the Green Party leadership with over 20,000 votes, compared to fewer than 4,000 for his rivals. As readers here will
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Shuffling deckchairs
Do you remember the days when Keir Starmer and Rachel Reeves were inseparable? It is a little over a year ago that they claimed that
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Our government is not defending us
As The Guardian reports this morning: Prominent women including cultural figures, politicians and campaigners have signed a letter criticising rightwing attempts to link sexual violence
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Keynes vs MMT: which economic theory fits our world?
Is Modern Monetary Theory just Keynes rebadged? Many think so—but they’re wrong. This video compares Keynesian ideas on borrowing and balanced budgets with MMT’s claim
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Stablecoin meltdown?
This post was nearly complete yesterday when the MacBook on which I was writing it failed. I am told that when it is repaired, most
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Gary Stevenson is right: we need tax expertise to tackle wealth
Gary Stevenson said on his YouTube channel yesterday that: “Correct implementation on tax policy is a job of experts and government and civil service. It
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Reform, migration and Christianity
As the Guardian noted yesterday: Reform UK has engaged in a war of words with the Church of England over the party’s plans to deport all
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Minouche Shafik is not going to save Labour’s economic policy
In 2018, Minouche (or, more formally, Nemat) Shafik wrote in an article entitled ‘A New Social Contract’, published by the International Monetary Fund, of which
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Wealth series 13: Should the UK bring back rent controls?
We talk about food poverty and fuel poverty, but almost never about rent poverty. Yet rent is now the biggest driver of inequality in Britain.
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