As I mentioned before Christmas, I have been working on a summary of modern monetary theory to be published in our PDF shop. I initially
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Zahawi reveals some truths about Reform
As the Guardian has reported: Nadhim Zahawi was rejected for a peerage by the Conservatives just weeks before he defected to Reform UK, Tory sources have told
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Might or care? The political choice that will define our future
Politics is being recast as dominance: strength, winning, threats, hierarchy. Donald Trump may be the loudest advocate of this worldview, but he is not alone.
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Standing Up to the Rise of Fascism
We put this short video out this lunchtime: This is the transcript: First, they came for George Floyd. Then they came for Renee Good. And
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Meaning, care and adversity
The pace of what is happening in the world right now is astonishing, almost frightening, and probably alienating for many. I turn on the television
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Why not a think tank?
The suggestion was made here yesterday that Funding the Future should turn itself into a think tank and seek more formal bases for funding for
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Speaker Mike Johnson and the denial of political freedom
On 20 January, Mike Johnson, the Speaker of the US Congress, is going to address both Houses of Parliament. This, I gather, is unprecedented. The
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Economic questions: the Erich Fromm 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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When AI, unemployment, and inflation collide
Artificial intelligence is often presented as a growth driver. I argue the opposite risk is emerging. AI-driven cost-cutting threatens jobs and demand, with the risk
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