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1Democracy is dying, and our hopes with it. And yes, I am angry about that331December 7 2024
2Why are our political leaders ignoring the genocide in Gaza?320May 7 2025
3How dare Keir Starmer tell my family that we have caused incalculable damage to the UK?301May 12 2025
4Panorama: an exercise in economic misinformation292June 3 2025
5It’s going to be torture as the path to Starmer’s inevitable demise is rolled out282February 8 2025
6Is Trump mad or bad?280January 24 2025
7Whether Labour likes it or not, we will move on279July 18 2025
8The bastards are out to exploit again279February 2 2025
9I don’t apologise for being so angry273March 19 2025
10While the world watches the circus, the country is falling apart272November 1 2025
11To my angry and disgusted commentator: a reply272November 5 2023
12Starmer v Haigh, the lessons learned267November 30 2024
13Why Rachel Reeves is making a mess of things264November 15 2025
14We have the right to use plain words to express plain sentiment in a plain way264July 17 2025
15Keir Starmer has never understood263April 26 2025
16We need more people like Hannah Spencer263February 24 2026
17There is class warfare going on in this country now, and it is Labour waging it on the people of the UK262October 15 2024
18Zack Polanski’s economic direction261March 18 2026
19Labour, sinking261September 14 2025
20If Labour will not stop Farage, then it – and the country – are consigned to history260February 9 2025
21Neoliberal abuse260August 4 2025
22There are so many questions, and so few answers258April 16 2025
23474 people258August 10 2025
24This might be the tipping point256March 1 2026
25It’s time that the left’s nitpickers got real256February 23 2025
26What is hard left about caring?255July 5 2025
27Wes Streeting is a disgrace253April 8 2024
28Farmers protesting about inheritance tax have got their econonics and arguments wrong252November 18 2024
29Pie theory250August 6 2025
30The axis of evil250March 12 2026
31Starmer exposed249September 18 2024
32MMT v fascism249November 6 2025
33Ethnic cleansing247August 5 2025
34The Guardian is part of the problem247June 15 2025
35The contemptuous games that Labour plays247April 18 2025
36Unless Labour listens and learns we are in big trouble247August 4 2024
37The significance of the Epstein files247July 19 2025
38Capitalism, my arse246September 29 2025
39Of course people are angry: we have totally useless politicians whose sole aim is to destroy government services. Why wouldn’t people be angry?246February 26 2024
40Don’t trust Wes Streeting’s NHS consultation245October 21 2024
41Starmer has to be next244September 11 2025
42Burnham v Starmer: it’s not hard to decide244September 28 2025
43This is what terrorism looks like243August 31 2025
44Labour politics is now about rule by indifference that seeks to impose cruelty242April 22 2025
45The Tory view of British values241March 2 2024
46Tariffs, fascism, and the required response241March 28 2025
47My concerns about Gary Stevenson’s economics of wealth241August 7 2025
48Why is the government obsessed with benefit fraud?241February 21 2025
49The hypocrisy of bankers needs to come to an end240November 27 2025
50Is Labour now the worst government of the last fifteen years?239January 23 2025
51Reeves is still peddling the household analogy238January 18 2025
52Rachel Reeves’ nasty prejudice is coming into play238October 18 2025
53Is MMT as dangerous as its opponents claim?238November 28 2025
54Labour really are total bastards238May 23 2025
55First they came for the Quakers237March 29 2025
56The power structures within society are all wrong – and no one is saying so237December 23 2024
57The politics of privilege are what the farmers’ protests are all about237November 20 2024
58We really are living in dangerous times237December 13 2025
59Consider this236July 28 2025
60It really is time to nationalise water235June 19 2025
61Time to end the House of Windsor234February 19 2026
62Ministerial bollocks234April 7 2025
63Why are we listening to Fiona Hill?233June 7 2025
64Giving a damn233February 24 2025
65Universities never realised they were harbouring the ideology that now seeks to kill them233July 7 2025
66Ending the toxic politics that is breaking the UK, and the world beyond233December 20 2023
67The significance of Mr Mountbatten-Windsor233October 31 2025
68The media must be held to account232May 24 2025
69We will be better off without the Tories231August 21 2025
70Is Starmer spreading complete misinformation on defence?230June 3 2025
71Labour is playing to the fascists whilst hurting hundreds of thousands of people.230May 12 2025
72A profoundly hostile world, where the odds are stacked in favour of a desperate few229June 13 2025
73Labour: too indifferent to democracy to care about its future229December 22 2024
74I don’t share values with Trump’s USA, and never will229February 15 2025
75The role of social media in economic reform228July 28 2025
76Finding a better song to sing228October 25 2024
77Labour can’t recover from this228August 2 2025
78If Braverman wants to brand me as an extremist, I plead guilty227November 5 2023
79Special relationship? I don’t think so226April 30 2025
80PFI is back – and it will be at cost to us all226September 9 2025
81This is the time for some seriously grown up politics226March 2 2025
82Rarely have we ever marched into the unknown so ill-equipped to manage the consequences225March 6 2026
83Please don’t abuse225July 23 2025
84Democracy is almost over in the States224May 22 2025
85Rachel Reeves is planning on repeating all the mistakes Gordon Brown made224August 13 2024
86All Rachel Reeves has to do now is wait for the crash224November 17 2024
87Five quick reforms the NHS urgently needs224December 11 2024
88What is the UK really going to be short of?223May 7 2025
89The sociocide of the wealthy223August 16 2025
90The FT needs to get its head around wealth, and the need to tax it223July 13 2025
91There is no economic crisis in the UK. So why is Rachel Reeves making people suffer?223September 2 2024
92When truth departs – as it is doing from the political field – we are in very deep trouble223July 11 2025
93Starmer’s new climate policy is unforgivable222October 4 2024
94My unease with flags222August 21 2025
95Has a more stupid man, so unable to read the runes, ever occupied No. 10?221April 13 2025
96Apple against the grain221February 26 2025
97Oh shit221February 13 2025
98Christianity, Starmer and the far-right221April 20 2025
99The water company crisis just got worse, thanks to Labour221May 16 2025
100The biggest challenge to Labour is Starmer221May 30 2025
101Labour is making a mockery of the rule of law221July 6 2025
102Streeting: rotten to the core220February 18 2025
103Does the US Congress know what socialism is?220November 22 2025
104Labour is becoming the enemy of the vulnerable219March 11 2025
105The UK benefits system is broken219March 16 2025
106The failure of British politics218February 4 2025
107Trump comes for the scientists217January 25 2025
108Rod Stewart: extremely wealthy and deeply out of touch217June 29 2025
109Someone, somewhere, has it in for Rachel Reeves216February 13 2025
110The ethics of the Starmer’s clothing216September 15 2024
111The power elite has drawn up the drawbridge216September 18 2025
112Trump is unleashing terror216January 23 2025
113Democracy does not matter to Labour216January 2 2025
114Wes Streeting’s exercise in thought control216December 4 2025
115Labour really are bastards, and are intent on proving it215May 25 2025
116Overcoming fear215August 26 2023
117I have to live with this215May 2 2025
118What sort of insanity is this?215April 24 2025
119Keeping things in proportion215March 22 2025
120Storms and teacups215August 6 2025
121Tackling the nonsense talked about the national debt, and its cost215December 31 2023
122It’s complicated, and that’s the problem no one wants to face214June 4 2025
123One paper got today’s visit by the President of Israel right214September 10 2025
124Keir Starmer does not know what he believes – but has achieved his goal214February 9 2026
125The world is in need of courageous people214July 10 2025
126UK politician’s credit card con-trick on the people of this country214February 10 2024
127If Keir Starmer understood this one blog post he could transform the UK214June 3 2025
128Is Keir Starmer a worse Prime Minister than Liz Truss?213January 25 2025
129We are living in a fucked up world213April 17 2025
130Might Trump fail soon?213April 27 2025
131Of Corbyn and Sultana, and the future of democracy213July 25 2025
132Growth is not coming back213October 29 2025
133Will Labour rise to the challenge from Musk?213December 2 2024
134Wes Streeting’s NHS redundancies make no sense213April 8 2025
135The white collar world is falling apart212November 2 2025
136Starmer’s finally found what he’s good at212October 26 2025
137Why the rich aren’t leaving, or coming, to the UK211September 8 2024
138Hints of dissent211February 1 2025
139A six does it210May 2 2025
140Christmas blogging210December 22 2023
141Blogged out210October 5 2024
142The great energy rip-off210April 21 2025
143Once might just be a mistake. Twice proves it isn’t.209February 22 2025
144Badenoch and Starmer: fascist enablers209May 15 2025
145The money Rachel Reeves needs is readily available. All that is lacking is the understanding on how to use it209June 1 2025
146Gary Stevenson is right: we need tax expertise to tackle wealth209September 1 2025
147The depravity of Rachel Reeves’ Mais lecture209March 19 2024
148Starmer is the NHS’s problem209December 13 2025
149Reeves is way out of her depth209March 23 2025
150Trump’s been snookered by China208April 14 2025
151One of the greatest of Labour’s sins208August 3 2025
152There is always more than one way of seeing things208August 29 2025
153 Why is Labour picking on pensioners?208September 10 2024
154Reform wants to destroy government and the economy as we know it208January 13 2025
155Keir Starmer comes across as untruthful, a procrastinator and a man without a shred of principle. But at least we now know that.207June 1 2024
156The national debt has just fallen by £1.5 trillion207November 27 2024
157Emeritus Professor207December 12 2024
158Trump is serious: he wants Greenland207January 26 2025
159Labour’s plan for Britain is austerity piled high207December 3 2023
160MMT in the Guardian207March 19 2026
161Labour is revolting207September 8 2024
162People are suffering because our politicians, economists and media are failing us206December 28 2024
163Poor, petrified, non-doms are terrified that they might have to pay some tax206April 13 2024
164We need deep thinking on delivery, and only get slogans206December 3 2025
165Musk has discovered modern monetary theory206March 18 2025
166Trump’s march towards full-on fascism is proceeding at pace206February 26 2025
167Intelligence services205August 9 2025
168This will end in tears205December 28 2024
169Why won’t Labour tax wealth?205March 30 2025
170Panic in New York205June 26 2025
171Why sell UK assets abroad when the government should be buying them instead?204February 26 2026
172Starmer: a man way out of his depth when dealing with the NHS204September 13 2024
173Palantir is not just a tech company204August 23 2025
174Why do we want a deal with the thugs running the USA?204April 24 2025
175Who is taking money from private medcine?204March 30 2025
176A note to the trolls204April 22 2025
177Are Labour ministers guilty of joint enterprise crimes on Gaza?204May 21 2025
178Rachel Reeves is wrong about debt interest204September 29 2025
179If growth is out of road, what are the reasons to be cheerful?204January 19 2025
180Farage wants to tear us apart204February 23 2026
181It’s time Labour saved the children203April 11 2025
182The coming private debt crisis will be Rachel Reeves’ fault203February 3 2025
183Why is Labour talking total economic nonsense to justify its desperate desire to keep children in poverty?203May 27 2025
184Why doesn’t the news media talk about the real issues in life?203January 2 2025
185We are at a moment in history where the truth has to be stated203May 5 2025
186The economic choice facing us is who matters? The people of this country, or the wealthy and the City?203October 10 2024
187Thames Water is bust: our politicians need to deal with it203April 7 2024
188Kendall’s performative callousness203March 19 2025
189Rachel Reeves’ new wheeze: punishing those who live in social housing with above inflation rent rises203August 21 2024
190MMT and rules of government borrowing202September 3 2025
191Wealth tax, or increased taxes on the income and gains from wealth?202March 19 2025
192The government of Israel has to go: peace requires it202June 14 2025
193Starmer has been defeated and has not a shred of credibility left202July 1 2025
194When the world changes, so should the Chancellor202February 16 2025
195The Bank of England is continuing to engineer a recession – and Rachel Reeves is letting it do so201September 20 2024
196The alternative economists, coming to a stage sometime soon?201September 12 2024
197Starmer’s actions on Palestine were unforgivable201July 30 2025
198Can Rayner survive?201September 4 2025
199Reeves can take on nature and alienate millions by doing so201January 29 2025
200Starmer’s J-turn201May 22 2025
201Is it all Rachel Reeves’ fault?201December 17 2024
202The illness of Charles III200February 6 2024
203Labour’s cry babies200September 11 2024
204It’s time to change UK energy pricing200February 25 2025
205Trump’s tariffs aren’t meant to make economic sense200April 5 2025
206Rachel Reeves is going for broke200July 29 2024
207Game over: this war was unjustified200March 17 2026
208Rarely have people so stupid done so much harm200May 12 2025
209The world needs to realise that we are at war with a fascist tyrant in the USA199April 4 2025
210Wes Streeting appears utterly indifferent to the harm he will cause199November 14 2024
211The failure of Musk is not by chance199May 31 2025
212Nine people need to go at the Bank of England199December 9 2025
213Why, Labour? Why?199December 15 2025
214In the face of genocide our basic human rights must be retained, and not be eroded199July 2 2025
215The next crash could be much bigger than the last two199December 10 2024
216The old narratives are dead. We are waiting for the new to be born198December 23 2024
217The total intellectual vacuum amongst our politicians198January 3 2025
218Why it matters that government spending comes before tax198August 9 2025
219Labour ministers who thought that freezing benefit payments was appropriate are not fit to hold public office198March 16 2025
220We need a new paradigm198September 25 2025
221Government-created inflation is back198May 21 2025
222The choice is simple. Do we run the economy in the interests of those who are in need, or for the benefit of those who already have a great deal but want more?198November 26 2023
223Observing the mess198September 6 2025
224Might Zak Polanski provide a moment (or more) of hope?198September 2 2025
225Does Labour just not care?197November 24 2024
226Trump’s assault on the USA: seeking an explanation197March 23 2025
227It’s not the job of the BBC to edit anti-fascist comments197February 17 2025
228What is the point of power if it is not to help the most vulnerable and least well off, which there is no sign that Labour will do?196March 17 2024
229How did a man like Starmer become prime minister?196June 14 2025
230Reeves really is doing her best to fail196October 15 2025
231Zack Polanski, migration, the Greens, and an economics of care196December 26 2025
232Liked the parrot nailed to the perch; growth is no more. It is ex-growth. 196August 14 2025
233The toxic politics of might and money195January 17 2026
234Fatigue195March 7 2026
235More economic folly from Rachel Reeves195January 28 2025
236If we had a wise Home Secretary195February 13 2026
237Rachel Reeves really is a very big threat to the well-being of this country195November 15 2024
238We are in a political wasteland195December 15 2023
239Kamala Harris, talking economic sense in ways UK politicians should copy195August 20 2024
240Farage, the cave, and pushing the Overton window aside195September 28 2025
241How far can these callous idiots fall?195November 17 2025
242Energy privatisation is bust194November 9 2025
243The oppression goes on194November 7 2025
244Are we ready for a debate on tax?194April 6 2024
245What is it about words that Keir Starmer does not understand?194May 9 2025
246Gove is following Goebbels’ advice194March 14 2024
247We need voices in the mainstream media who are willing to call out fascism194March 27 2024
248Starmer’s choice? Does he support Palestine or the USA? He cant have both.194August 4 2025
249In a land not far from here there is a genocide going on194June 14 2024
250Labour’s arguments on water nationalisation reveal their total economic incompetence194July 22 2025
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