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
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Has the coup already happened?
The New York Times began an email I received overnight by saying: Today, I’m talking to my colleague Damien Cave, who wrote a great piece
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Nigel Farage vs climate change
This video was posted to YouTube yesterday afternoon, but I was so involved in what I was doing I forgot to share it here. So
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10 commandments for a just economy
Our economy isn’t working. It’s built on lies: the myth of growth, the myth that profit comes before people, and the myth that wealth is
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Rachel Reeves is wrong about debt interest
At the Labour Party conference this morning, Rachel Reeves said: “There is nothing progressive, nothing Labour, about government using one in every £10 of public
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Capitalism, my arse
As the Guardian reports this morning: The government has said it will underwrite a £1.5bn loan guarantee to Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) as the carmaker battles the
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Fiscal rules
Introduction This is one of a series of posts on this blog which summarise my thinking on some key economic issues about which I am
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Another new series: my economic ideas
The amount of email traffic I am receiving regarding the blog and YouTube is increasing at present. Some are invitations: I am doing a fair
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Labour: racist, immoral and likely to tear the country apart
Yesterday, Keir Starmer described Reform’s policy on the right to indefinite leave to remain (ILR) in the UK as “racist”, “immoral” and likely to “tear
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