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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?318May 7 2025
3How dare Keir Starmer tell my family that we have caused incalculable damage to the UK?299May 12 2025
4Panorama: an exercise in economic misinformation291June 3 2025
5It’s going to be torture as the path to Starmer’s inevitable demise is rolled out281February 8 2025
6Is Trump mad or bad?280January 24 2025
7The bastards are out to exploit again279February 2 2025
8Whether Labour likes it or not, we will move on279July 18 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 reply271November 5 2023
12Starmer v Haigh, the lessons learned267November 30 2024
13We have the right to use plain words to express plain sentiment in a plain way264July 17 2025
14Why Rachel Reeves is making a mess of things264November 15 2025
15There is class warfare going on in this country now, and it is Labour waging it on the people of the UK262October 15 2024
16Keir Starmer has never understood262April 26 2025
17Labour, sinking261September 14 2025
18If Labour will not stop Farage, then it – and the country – are consigned to history260February 9 2025
19Neoliberal abuse260August 4 2025
20There are so many questions, and so few answers258April 16 2025
21474 people258August 10 2025
22It’s time that the left’s nitpickers got real256February 23 2025
23What is hard left about caring?255July 5 2025
24Wes Streeting is a disgrace253April 8 2024
25Farmers protesting about inheritance tax have got their econonics and arguments wrong252November 18 2024
26Pie theory250August 6 2025
27Starmer exposed249September 18 2024
28MMT v fascism249November 6 2025
29The Guardian is part of the problem247June 15 2025
30The contemptuous games that Labour plays247April 18 2025
31Unless Labour listens and learns we are in big trouble247August 4 2024
32Ethnic cleansing247August 5 2025
33Of 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
34The significance of the Epstein files246July 19 2025
35Capitalism, my arse246September 29 2025
36Don’t trust Wes Streeting’s NHS consultation245October 21 2024
37Burnham v Starmer: it’s not hard to decide244September 28 2025
38Starmer has to be next244September 11 2025
39This is what terrorism looks like243August 31 2025
40Labour politics is now about rule by indifference that seeks to impose cruelty242April 22 2025
41My concerns about Gary Stevenson’s economics of wealth241August 7 2025
42The Tory view of British values241March 2 2024
43Tariffs, fascism, and the required response241March 28 2025
44Why is the government obsessed with benefit fraud?241February 21 2025
45The hypocrisy of bankers needs to come to an end240November 27 2025
46Is Labour now the worst government of the last fifteen years?239January 23 2025
47Rachel Reeves’ nasty prejudice is coming into play238October 18 2025
48Labour really are total bastards238May 23 2025
49Reeves is still peddling the household analogy238January 18 2025
50Is MMT as dangerous as its opponents claim?237November 28 2025
51We really are living in dangerous times237December 13 2025
52The power structures within society are all wrong – and no one is saying so237December 23 2024
53The politics of privilege are what the farmers’ protests are all about237November 20 2024
54First they came for the Quakers236March 29 2025
55Consider this236July 28 2025
56It really is time to nationalise water235June 19 2025
57Ministerial bollocks234April 7 2025
58Ending the toxic politics that is breaking the UK, and the world beyond233December 20 2023
59The significance of Mr Mountbatten-Windsor233October 31 2025
60Why are we listening to Fiona Hill?233June 7 2025
61Universities never realised they were harbouring the ideology that now seeks to kill them233July 7 2025
62Giving a damn233February 24 2025
63The media must be held to account232May 24 2025
64We will be better off without the Tories231August 21 2025
65Is Starmer spreading complete misinformation on defence?230June 3 2025
66Labour is playing to the fascists whilst hurting hundreds of thousands of people.230May 12 2025
67Labour: too indifferent to democracy to care about its future229December 22 2024
68I don’t share values with Trump’s USA, and never will229February 15 2025
69A profoundly hostile world, where the odds are stacked in favour of a desperate few229June 13 2025
70Labour can’t recover from this228August 2 2025
71The role of social media in economic reform228July 28 2025
72Finding a better song to sing228October 25 2024
73If Braverman wants to brand me as an extremist, I plead guilty227November 5 2023
74PFI is back – and it will be at cost to us all226September 9 2025
75This is the time for some seriously grown up politics226March 2 2025
76Special relationship? I don’t think so226April 30 2025
77Please don’t abuse225July 23 2025
78Democracy is almost over in the States224May 22 2025
79Rachel Reeves is planning on repeating all the mistakes Gordon Brown made224August 13 2024
80All Rachel Reeves has to do now is wait for the crash224November 17 2024
81Five quick reforms the NHS urgently needs224December 11 2024
82The FT needs to get its head around wealth, and the need to tax it223July 13 2025
83There is no economic crisis in the UK. So why is Rachel Reeves making people suffer?223September 2 2024
84When truth departs – as it is doing from the political field – we are in very deep trouble223July 11 2025
85The sociocide of the wealthy223August 16 2025
86What is the UK really going to be short of?223May 7 2025
87My unease with flags222August 21 2025
88Starmer’s new climate policy is unforgivable222October 4 2024
89Christianity, Starmer and the far-right221April 20 2025
90The water company crisis just got worse, thanks to Labour221May 16 2025
91Labour is making a mockery of the rule of law221July 6 2025
92The biggest challenge to Labour is Starmer221May 30 2025
93Has a more stupid man, so unable to read the runes, ever occupied No. 10?221April 13 2025
94Apple against the grain221February 26 2025
95Oh shit221February 13 2025
96Streeting: rotten to the core220February 18 2025
97Does the US Congress know what socialism is?220November 22 2025
98The UK benefits system is broken219March 16 2025
99Labour is becoming the enemy of the vulnerable219March 11 2025
100The failure of British politics218February 4 2025
101Rod Stewart: extremely wealthy and deeply out of touch217June 29 2025
102Trump comes for the scientists217January 25 2025
103The ethics of the Starmer’s clothing216September 15 2024
104The power elite has drawn up the drawbridge216September 18 2025
105Trump is unleashing terror216January 23 2025
106Democracy does not matter to Labour216January 2 2025
107Wes Streeting’s exercise in thought control216December 4 2025
108Someone, somewhere, has it in for Rachel Reeves216February 13 2025
109What sort of insanity is this?215April 24 2025
110Storms and teacups215August 6 2025
111Keeping things in proportion215March 22 2025
112Labour really are bastards, and are intent on proving it215May 25 2025
113Overcoming fear215August 26 2023
114I have to live with this215May 2 2025
115The world is in need of courageous people214July 10 2025
116UK politician’s credit card con-trick on the people of this country214February 10 2024
117Tackling the nonsense talked about the national debt, and its cost214December 31 2023
118If Keir Starmer understood this one blog post he could transform the UK214June 3 2025
119It’s complicated, and that’s the problem no one wants to face214June 4 2025
120One paper got today’s visit by the President of Israel right214September 10 2025
121Of Corbyn and Sultana, and the future of democracy213July 25 2025
122Growth is not coming back213October 29 2025
123Will Labour rise to the challenge from Musk?213December 2 2024
124Wes Streeting’s NHS redundancies make no sense213April 8 2025
125Keir Starmer does not know what he believes – but has achieved his goal213February 9 2026
126Is Keir Starmer a worse Prime Minister than Liz Truss?213January 25 2025
127We are living in a fucked up world213April 17 2025
128Might Trump fail soon?213April 27 2025
129Starmer’s finally found what he’s good at212October 26 2025
130The white collar world is falling apart212November 2 2025
131Why the rich aren’t leaving, or coming, to the UK211September 8 2024
132Hints of dissent211February 1 2025
133Blogged out210October 5 2024
134The great energy rip-off210April 21 2025
135A six does it210May 2 2025
136Christmas blogging210December 22 2023
137The money Rachel Reeves needs is readily available. All that is lacking is the understanding on how to use it209June 1 2025
138Gary Stevenson is right: we need tax expertise to tackle wealth209September 1 2025
139Starmer is the NHS’s problem209December 13 2025
140The depravity of Rachel Reeves’ Mais lecture209March 19 2024
141Reeves is way out of her depth209March 23 2025
142Once might just be a mistake. Twice proves it isn’t.209February 22 2025
143Badenoch and Starmer: fascist enablers209May 15 2025
144One of the greatest of Labour’s sins208August 3 2025
145There is always more than one way of seeing things208August 29 2025
146 Why is Labour picking on pensioners?208September 10 2024
147Reform wants to destroy government and the economy as we know it208January 13 2025
148Trump’s been snookered by China208April 14 2025
149Emeritus Professor207December 12 2024
150Trump is serious: he wants Greenland207January 26 2025
151Labour’s plan for Britain is austerity piled high207December 3 2023
152Labour is revolting207September 8 2024
153Keir 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
154The national debt has just fallen by £1.5 trillion207November 27 2024
155We need deep thinking on delivery, and only get slogans206December 3 2025
156Musk has discovered modern monetary theory206March 18 2025
157Trump’s march towards full-on fascism is proceeding at pace206February 26 2025
158People are suffering because our politicians, economists and media are failing us206December 28 2024
159Poor, petrified, non-doms are terrified that they might have to pay some tax206April 13 2024
160This will end in tears205December 28 2024
161Why won’t Labour tax wealth?205March 30 2025
162Panic in New York205June 26 2025
163Intelligence services205August 9 2025
164A note to the trolls204April 22 2025
165Are Labour ministers guilty of joint enterprise crimes on Gaza?204May 21 2025
166Rachel Reeves is wrong about debt interest204September 29 2025
167If growth is out of road, what are the reasons to be cheerful?204January 19 2025
168Palantir is not just a tech company204August 23 2025
169Starmer: a man way out of his depth when dealing with the NHS204September 13 2024
170Why do we want a deal with the thugs running the USA?204April 24 2025
171Who is taking money from private medcine?204March 30 2025
172Why is Labour talking total economic nonsense to justify its desperate desire to keep children in poverty?203May 27 2025
173Why doesn’t the news media talk about the real issues in life?203January 2 2025
174The economic choice facing us is who matters? The people of this country, or the wealthy and the City?203October 10 2024
175We are at a moment in history where the truth has to be stated203May 5 2025
176Thames Water is bust: our politicians need to deal with it203April 7 2024
177Kendall’s performative callousness203March 19 2025
178Rachel Reeves’ new wheeze: punishing those who live in social housing with above inflation rent rises203August 21 2024
179It’s time Labour saved the children203April 11 2025
180The coming private debt crisis will be Rachel Reeves’ fault203February 3 2025
181When the world changes, so should the Chancellor202February 16 2025
182The government of Israel has to go: peace requires it202June 14 2025
183Wealth tax, or increased taxes on the income and gains from wealth?202March 19 2025
184Starmer has been defeated and has not a shred of credibility left202July 1 2025
185The alternative economists, coming to a stage sometime soon?201September 12 2024
186Starmer’s actions on Palestine were unforgivable201July 30 2025
187Can Rayner survive?201September 4 2025
188Reeves can take on nature and alienate millions by doing so201January 29 2025
189Is it all Rachel Reeves’ fault?201December 17 2024
190Starmer’s J-turn201May 22 2025
191The Bank of England is continuing to engineer a recession – and Rachel Reeves is letting it do so201September 20 2024
192Trump’s tariffs aren’t meant to make economic sense200April 5 2025
193Rachel Reeves is going for broke200July 29 2024
194Rarely have people so stupid done so much harm200May 12 2025
195MMT and rules of government borrowing200September 3 2025
196The illness of Charles III200February 6 2024
197Labour’s cry babies200September 11 2024
198It’s time to change UK energy pricing199February 25 2025
199Why, Labour? Why?199December 15 2025
200The failure of Musk is not by chance199May 31 2025
201Nine people need to go at the Bank of England199December 9 2025
202In the face of genocide our basic human rights must be retained, and not be eroded199July 2 2025
203The next crash could be much bigger than the last two199December 10 2024
204The world needs to realise that we are at war with a fascist tyrant in the USA199April 4 2025
205Wes Streeting appears utterly indifferent to the harm he will cause199November 14 2024
206Labour ministers who thought that freezing benefit payments was appropriate are not fit to hold public office198March 16 2025
207We need a new paradigm198September 25 2025
208Government-created inflation is back198May 21 2025
209Observing the mess198September 6 2025
210The 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
211Might Zak Polanski provide a moment (or more) of hope?198September 2 2025
212The old narratives are dead. We are waiting for the new to be born198December 23 2024
213The total intellectual vacuum amongst our politicians198January 3 2025
214Why it matters that government spending comes before tax198August 9 2025
215Trump’s assault on the USA: seeking an explanation197March 23 2025
216It’s not the job of the BBC to edit anti-fascist comments197February 17 2025
217Does Labour just not care?197November 24 2024
218Zack Polanski, migration, the Greens, and an economics of care196December 26 2025
219Reeves really is doing her best to fail196October 15 2025
220Liked the parrot nailed to the perch; growth is no more. It is ex-growth. 196August 14 2025
221What 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
222How did a man like Starmer become prime minister?196June 14 2025
223We are in a political wasteland195December 15 2023
224Kamala Harris, talking economic sense in ways UK politicians should copy195August 20 2024
225Farage, the cave, and pushing the Overton window aside195September 28 2025
226How far can these callous idiots fall?195November 17 2025
227The toxic politics of might and money195January 17 2026
228More economic folly from Rachel Reeves195January 28 2025
229Rachel Reeves really is a very big threat to the well-being of this country195November 15 2024
230Are we ready for a debate on tax?194April 6 2024
231What is it about words that Keir Starmer does not understand?194May 9 2025
232Gove is following Goebbels’ advice194March 14 2024
233We need voices in the mainstream media who are willing to call out fascism194March 27 2024
234Starmer’s choice? Does he support Palestine or the USA? He cant have both.194August 4 2025
235In a land not far from here there is a genocide going on194June 14 2024
236Labour’s arguments on water nationalisation reveal their total economic incompetence194July 22 2025
237Energy privatisation is bust194November 9 2025
238The oppression goes on194November 7 2025
239Farewell Twitter193January 7 2025
240The Starmer project is deeply contemptuous of anyone vaguely left of centre193May 27 2024
241Selfishness cannot be the basis of society193December 26 2023
242Illegitimi non carborundum193July 26 2025
243It’s not all hogwash192February 6 2025
244There is no evidence to support today’s benefits cuts192March 18 2025
245Trump’s racism apparently knows no limits192January 31 2025
246Everything is changing. It is time to grab the opportunities192March 2 2025
247Does Starmer want a war?192June 1 2025
248The world is becoming a very threatening place192February 13 2025
249Where are the presidents?192March 1 2025
250Why Labour needs to be rid of Starmer192July 17 2025
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