An old friend of mine, the poet Steve Pottinger, put this on his Substack yesterday, and I reproduce it here with his permission: If you’ve
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Noting the odds
This was encouraging when I noticed it on Twitter last night: You might have to click the image to see a larger version to read
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The fallout from Mandelson
What to think of Peter Mandelson’s conduct? I will place my cards face up on the table. I have always loathed the man. I have
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If GDP is a broken measure, why do politicians still worship it?
GDP dominates political debate, but it tells us almost nothing about real prosperity, well-being, or care. Created as a technical statistic of massive use in
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None of this makes sense
Whilst looking at the prices of gold, silver, and oil this morning, I thought I might also take a look at the price of Bitcoin,
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The price of exuberance
The fools who parted with their money to buy gold, thinking it was a safe haven, are paying a high price for their folly. This
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Corruption, damned corruption and neoliberal corruption
As the Guardian notes this morning: Peter Mandelson has said he has resigned his membership of the Labour party to avoid causing it “further embarrassment”
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Is the UK over?
I noticed this Tweet yesterday. I cannot embed the Tweet here. Follow the link to listen to it. I also did not watch the original
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What do we want? Care or fascism? That’s the economic choice we now face
This video argues that we are facing a stark economic and political choice: fascism or care. Fascism is not history. It is happening now. It
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