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1Democracy is dying, and our hopes with it. And yes, I am angry about that327December 7 2024
2Why are our political leaders ignoring the genocide in Gaza?315May 7 2025
3How dare Keir Starmer tell my family that we have caused incalculable damage to the UK?292May 12 2025
4Panorama: an exercise in economic misinformation288June 3 2025
5It’s going to be torture as the path to Starmer’s inevitable demise is rolled out280February 8 2025
6Whether Labour likes it or not, we will move on279July 18 2025
7The bastards are out to exploit again278February 2 2025
8Is Trump mad or bad?274January 24 2025
9I don’t apologise for being so angry272March 19 2025
10While the world watches the circus, the country is falling apart272November 1 2025
11To my angry and disgusted commentator: a reply268November 5 2023
12Starmer v Haigh, the lessons learned266November 30 2024
13We have the right to use plain words to express plain sentiment in a plain way264July 17 2025
14Keir Starmer has never understood262April 26 2025
15Why Rachel Reeves is making a mess of things261November 15 2025
16There is class warfare going on in this country now, and it is Labour waging it on the people of the UK261October 15 2024
17Labour, sinking261September 14 2025
18Neoliberal abuse260August 4 2025
19If Labour will not stop Farage, then it – and the country – are consigned to history260February 9 2025
20There are so many questions, and so few answers258April 16 2025
21474 people257August 10 2025
22It’s time that the left’s nitpickers got real255February 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 wrong250November 18 2024
26Starmer exposed249September 18 2024
27Pie theory249August 6 2025
28MMT v fascism248November 6 2025
29Unless Labour listens and learns we are in big trouble247August 4 2024
30Ethnic cleansing247August 5 2025
31The Guardian is part of the problem247June 15 2025
32The contemptuous games that Labour plays247April 18 2025
33Capitalism, my arse246September 29 2025
34Of 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
35The significance of the Epstein files246July 19 2025
36Starmer has to be next244September 11 2025
37Don’t trust Wes Streeting’s NHS consultation244October 21 2024
38Burnham v Starmer: it’s not hard to decide244September 28 2025
39This is what terrorism looks like243August 31 2025
40Labour politics is now about rule by indifference that seeks to impose cruelty242April 22 2025
41Tariffs, fascism, and the required response241March 28 2025
42Why is the government obsessed with benefit fraud?241February 21 2025
43The Tory view of British values241March 2 2024
44My concerns about Gary Stevenson’s economics of wealth239August 7 2025
45Labour really are total bastards238May 23 2025
46Reeves is still peddling the household analogy238January 18 2025
47Is Labour now the worst government of the last fifteen years?238January 23 2025
48Rachel Reeves’ nasty prejudice is coming into play238October 18 2025
49The power structures within society are all wrong – and no one is saying so237December 23 2024
50First they came for the Quakers236March 29 2025
51The politics of privilege are what the farmers’ protests are all about236November 20 2024
52Consider this236July 28 2025
53It really is time to nationalise water235June 19 2025
54Ministerial bollocks234April 7 2025
55Why are we listening to Fiona Hill?233June 7 2025
56Universities never realised they were harbouring the ideology that now seeks to kill them233July 7 2025
57Giving a damn233February 24 2025
58The significance of Mr Mountbatten-Windsor233October 31 2025
59Ending the toxic politics that is breaking the UK, and the world beyond233December 20 2023
60The media must be held to account232May 24 2025
61We will be better off without the Tories231August 21 2025
62Is Starmer spreading complete misinformation on defence?230June 3 2025
63Labour is playing to the fascists whilst hurting hundreds of thousands of people.230May 12 2025
64Labour: too indifferent to democracy to care about its future229December 22 2024
65I don’t share values with Trump’s USA, and never will229February 15 2025
66A profoundly hostile world, where the odds are stacked in favour of a desperate few229June 13 2025
67The role of social media in economic reform228July 28 2025
68Finding a better song to sing228October 25 2024
69Labour can’t recover from this228August 2 2025
70This is the time for some seriously grown up politics226March 2 2025
71Special relationship? I don’t think so226April 30 2025
72Please don’t abuse225July 23 2025
73PFI is back – and it will be at cost to us all225September 9 2025
74If Braverman wants to brand me as an extremist, I plead guilty225November 5 2023
75Democracy is almost over in the States224May 22 2025
76Rachel Reeves is planning on repeating all the mistakes Gordon Brown made224August 13 2024
77All Rachel Reeves has to do now is wait for the crash224November 17 2024
78Five quick reforms the NHS urgently needs224December 11 2024
79When truth departs – as it is doing from the political field – we are in very deep trouble223July 11 2025
80The sociocide of the wealthy223August 16 2025
81What is the UK really going to be short of?223May 7 2025
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?222September 2 2024
84Starmer’s new climate policy is unforgivable222October 4 2024
85Labour is making a mockery of the rule of law221July 6 2025
86The biggest challenge to Labour is Starmer221May 30 2025
87My unease with flags221August 21 2025
88Has a more stupid man, so unable to read the runes, ever occupied No. 10?221April 13 2025
89Apple against the grain221February 26 2025
90Oh shit221February 13 2025
91Christianity, Starmer and the far-right221April 20 2025
92The water company crisis just got worse, thanks to Labour221May 16 2025
93Labour is becoming the enemy of the vulnerable219March 11 2025
94The UK benefits system is broken. One third of benefits are not paid and by far the biggest recipients of state aid are the wealthiest people in the country219March 16 2025
95The failure of British politics218February 4 2025
96Streeting: rotten to the core218February 18 2025
97Trump comes for the scientists217January 25 2025
98Someone, somewhere, has it in for Rachel Reeves216February 13 2025
99Rod Stewart: extremely wealthy and deeply out of touch216June 29 2025
100The power elite has drawn up the drawbridge216September 18 2025
101Trump is unleashing terror216January 23 2025
102Democracy does not matter to Labour216January 2 2025
103Labour really are bastards, and are intent on proving it215May 25 2025
104Overcoming fear215August 26 2023
105I have to live with this215May 2 2025
106The ethics of the Starmer’s clothing215September 15 2024
107What sort of insanity is this?215April 24 2025
108Storms and teacups215August 6 2025
109Keeping things in proportion215March 22 2025
110Tackling the nonsense talked about the national debt, and its cost214December 31 2023
111If Keir Starmer understood this one blog post he could transform the UK214June 3 2025
112It’s complicated, and that’s the problem no one wants to face214June 4 2025
113One paper got today’s visit by the President of Israel right214September 10 2025
114The world is in need of courageous people214July 10 2025
115UK politician’s credit card con-trick on the people of this country214February 10 2024
116Wes Streeting’s NHS redundancies make no sense213April 8 2025
117Is Keir Starmer a worse Prime Minister than Liz Truss?213January 25 2025
118Might Trump fail soon?213April 27 2025
119Of Corbyn and Sultana, and the future of democracy213July 25 2025
120Will Labour rise to the challenge from Musk?213December 2 2024
121We are living in a fucked up world212April 17 2025
122Growth is not coming back — and nor should our democracy depend upon it212October 29 2025
123Why the rich aren’t leaving, or coming, to the UK211September 8 2024
124Hints of dissent211February 1 2025
125The white collar world is falling apart211November 2 2025
126Starmer’s finally found what he’s good at211October 26 2025
127The great energy rip-off210April 21 2025
128A six does it210May 2 2025
129Christmas blogging210December 22 2023
130Blogged out210October 5 2024
131The depravity of Rachel Reeves’ Mais lecture209March 19 2024
132Reeves is way out of her depth209March 23 2025
133Once might just be a mistake. Twice proves it isn’t.209February 22 2025
134Badenoch and Starmer: fascist enablers209May 15 2025
135The money Rachel Reeves needs is readily available. All that is lacking is the understanding on how to use it209June 1 2025
136Trump’s been snookered by China208April 14 2025
137One of the greatest of Labour’s sins208August 3 2025
138There is always more than one way of seeing things208August 29 2025
139Gary Stevenson is right: we need tax expertise to tackle wealth208September 1 2025
140Reform wants to destroy government and the economy as we know it208January 13 2025
141Labour is revolting207September 8 2024
142Keir 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
143Emeritus Professor207December 12 2024
144Trump is serious: he wants Greenland207January 26 2025
145 Why is Labour picking on pensioners?207September 10 2024
146Labour’s plan for Britain is austerity piled high207December 3 2023
147Trump’s march towards full-on fascism is proceeding at pace206February 26 2025
148People are suffering because our politicians, economists and media are failing us206December 28 2024
149Poor, petrified, non-doms are terrified that they might have to pay some tax206April 13 2024
150The national debt has just fallen by £1.5 trillion206November 27 2024
151Intelligence services205August 9 2025
152This will end in tears205December 28 2024
153Why won’t Labour tax wealth?205March 30 2025
154Panic in New York205June 26 2025
155Musk has discovered modern monetary theory205March 18 2025
156Palantir is not just a tech company204August 23 2025
157Starmer: a man way out of his depth when dealing with the NHS204September 13 2024
158Why do we want a deal with the thugs running the USA?204April 24 2025
159Who is taking money from private medcine?204March 30 2025
160A note to the trolls204April 22 2025
161Are Labour ministers guilty of joint enterprise crimes on Gaza?204May 21 2025
162If growth is out of road, what are the reasons to be cheerful?204January 19 2025
163Kendall’s performative callousness203March 19 2025
164Rachel Reeves’ new wheeze: punishing those who live in social housing with above inflation rent rises203August 21 2024
165It’s time Labour saved the children203April 11 2025
166The coming private debt crisis will be Rachel Reeves’ fault203February 3 2025
167Why is Labour talking total economic nonsense to justify its desperate desire to keep children in poverty?203May 27 2025
168Rachel Reeves is wrong about debt interest203September 29 2025
169Why doesn’t the news media talk about the real issues in life?203January 2 2025
170The economic choice facing us is who matters? The people of this country, or the wealthy and the City?203October 10 2024
171We are at a moment in history where the truth has to be stated203May 5 2025
172Thames Water is bust: our politicians need to deal with it203April 7 2024
173The government of Israel has to go: peace requires it202June 14 2025
174Wealth tax, or increased taxes on the income and gains from wealth?202March 19 2025
175Starmer has been defeated and has not a shred of credibility left202July 1 2025
176When the world changes, so should the Chancellor202February 16 2025
177Reeves can take on nature and alienate millions by doing so201January 29 2025
178Is it all Rachel Reeves’ fault?201December 17 2024
179Starmer’s J-turn201May 22 2025
180The Bank of England is continuing to engineer a recession – and Rachel Reeves is letting it do so201September 20 2024
181The alternative economists, coming to a stage sometime soon?201September 12 2024
182Can Rayner survive?201September 4 2025
183Rarely have people so stupid done so much harm200May 12 2025
184The illness of Charles III200February 6 2024
185Labour’s cry babies200September 11 2024
186Trump’s tariffs aren’t meant to make economic sense200April 5 2025
187Starmer’s actions on Palestine were unforgivable200July 30 2025
188Rachel Reeves is going for broke200July 29 2024
189The next crash could be much bigger than the last two199December 10 2024
190MMT and rules of government borrowing199September 3 2025
191The world needs to realise that we are at war with a fascist tyrant in the USA199April 4 2025
192Wes Streeting appears utterly indifferent to the harm he will cause199November 14 2024
193It’s time to change UK energy pricing199February 25 2025
194The failure of Musk is not by chance199May 31 2025
195In the face of genocide our basic human rights must be retained, and not be eroded199July 2 2025
196The old narratives are dead. We are waiting for the new to be born198December 23 2024
197The total intellectual vacuum amongst our politicians198January 3 2025
198Why it matters that government spending comes before tax198August 9 2025
199Labour ministers who thought that freezing benefit payments was appropriate are not fit to hold public office198March 16 2025
200We need a new paradigm198September 25 2025
201Government-created inflation is back198May 21 2025
202Observing the mess198September 6 2025
203The 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
204Might Zak Polanski provide a moment (or more) of hope?198September 2 2025
205It’s not the job of the BBC to edit anti-fascist comments197February 17 2025
206Does Labour just not care?197November 24 2024
207Trump’s assault on the USA: seeking an explanation196March 23 2025
208Liked the parrot nailed to the perch; growth is no more. It is ex-growth. 196August 14 2025
209What 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
210How did a man like Starmer become prime minister?196June 14 2025
211Reeves really is doing her best to fail196October 15 2025
212More economic folly from Rachel Reeves195January 28 2025
213Rachel Reeves really is a very big threat to the well-being of this country195November 15 2024
214We are in a political wasteland195December 15 2023
215Kamala Harris, talking economic sense in ways UK politicians should copy195August 20 2024
216Farage, the cave, and pushing the Overton window aside195September 28 2025
217In a land not far from here there is a genocide going on194June 14 2024
218Labour’s arguments on water nationalisation reveal their total economic incompetence194July 22 2025
219Energy privatisation is bust194November 9 2025
220The oppression goes on194November 7 2025
221Are we ready for a debate on tax?194April 6 2024
222What is it about words that Keir Starmer does not understand?194May 9 2025
223Gove is following Goebbels’ advice194March 14 2024
224We need voices in the mainstream media who are willing to call out fascism194March 27 2024
225Starmer’s choice? Does he support Palestine or the USA? He cant have both.194August 4 2025
226Illegitimi non carborundum193July 26 2025
227Farewell Twitter193January 7 2025
228How far can these callous idiots fall?193November 17 2025
229The Starmer project is deeply contemptuous of anyone vaguely left of centre193May 27 2024
230Selfishness cannot be the basis of society193December 26 2023
231The world is becoming a very threatening place192February 13 2025
232Where are the presidents?192March 1 2025
233Why Labour needs to be rid of Starmer192July 17 2025
234It’s not all hogwash192February 6 2025
235There is no evidence to support today’s benefits cuts192March 18 2025
236Trump’s racism apparently knows no limits192January 31 2025
237Everything is changing. It is time to grab the opportunities192March 2 2025
238The square root of bugger-all191February 13 2025
239Young people are alienated by neoliberalism191November 14 2025
240On an island of strangers191May 13 2025
241The rich have no more wants and are sitting on cash whilst those in need are getting needier. Why is anyone surprised that the world is getting angrier?191February 25 2024
242Gary Stevenson and the failure of the left191September 11 2025
243Labour is a moral void191July 24 2024
244The likelihood that this is a very happy Labour government is very low indeed191September 22 2024
245Fools, the ability to think, and crashes191October 22 2025
246Children requiring educational support are not bankrupting councils190March 31 2025
247Reeves’ choice190January 13 2025
248What will the comfortable classes do?190August 1 2024
249The aftermath of the Manchester attack190October 3 2025
250It’s all falling apart for Nigel, again190March 8 2025
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