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1Democracy is dying, and our hopes with it. And yes, I am angry about that335December 7 2024
2Why are our political leaders ignoring the genocide in Gaza?324May 7 2025
3How dare Keir Starmer tell my family that we have caused incalculable damage to the UK?304May 12 2025
4Do we have the right to question police violence?300May 3 2026
5Panorama: an exercise in economic misinformation295June 3 2025
6Why pick on Chris Packham?291August 12 2026
7There’s a reason why seven prime ministers have failed291June 23 2026
8It’s going to be torture as the path to Starmer’s inevitable demise is rolled out283February 8 2025
9Is Trump mad or bad?281January 24 2025
10Whether Labour likes it or not, we will move on280July 18 2025
11The bastards are out to exploit again279February 2 2025
12I don’t apologise for being so angry274March 19 2025
13To my angry and disgusted commentator: a reply273November 5 2023
14While the world watches the circus, the country is falling apart272November 1 2025
15Starmer v Haigh, the lessons learned267November 30 2024
16We need more people like Hannah Spencer264February 24 2026
17Keir Starmer has never understood264April 26 2025
18Why Rachel Reeves is making a mess of things264November 15 2025
19We have the right to use plain words to express plain sentiment in a plain way264July 17 2025
20Zack Polanski’s economic direction263March 18 2026
21Giving praise to Burnham and Miliband when it is due262September 9 2026
22There is class warfare going on in this country now, and it is Labour waging it on the people of the UK262October 15 2024
23Labour, sinking261September 14 2025
24Neoliberal abuse261August 4 2025
25If Labour will not stop Farage, then it – and the country – are consigned to history261February 9 2025
26How to manage the cost of government borrowing260May 12 2026
27This might be the tipping point259March 1 2026
28Normal service is not in operation259June 22 2026
29There are so many questions, and so few answers258April 16 2025
30474 people258August 10 2025
31This could be as bad as 1929, and maybe very much worse256May 16 2026
32It’s time that the left’s nitpickers got real256February 23 2025
33What is hard left about caring?255July 5 2025
34Wes Streeting is a disgrace253April 8 2024
35Clive Lewis: the Labour MP who gets it252May 11 2026
36Farmers protesting about inheritance tax have got their econonics and arguments wrong252November 18 2024
37The axis of evil250March 12 2026
38Starmer exposed250September 18 2024
39Pie theory250August 6 2025
40MMT v fascism249November 6 2025
41The politics of James Purnell249June 25 2026
42The Guardian is part of the problem247June 15 2025
43The contemptuous games that Labour plays247April 18 2025
44Unless Labour listens and learns we are in big trouble247August 4 2024
45The significance of the Epstein files247July 19 2025
46Ethnic cleansing247August 5 2025
47Of 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
48My concerns about Gary Stevenson’s economics of wealth246August 7 2025
49Capitalism, my arse246September 29 2025
50Don’t trust Wes Streeting’s NHS consultation245October 21 2024
51Burnham v Starmer: it’s not hard to decide244September 28 2025
52Starmer has to be next244September 11 2025
53This is what terrorism looks like243August 31 2025
54Why is the government obsessed with benefit fraud?243February 21 2025
55Labour politics is now about rule by indifference that seeks to impose cruelty242April 22 2025
56The Tory view of British values241March 2 2024
57Tariffs, fascism, and the required response241March 28 2025
58Gary Stevenson’s break240July 27 2026
59The hypocrisy of bankers needs to come to an end240November 27 2025
60Is Labour now the worst government of the last fifteen years?239January 23 2025
61Rachel Reeves’ nasty prejudice is coming into play238October 18 2025
62Is MMT as dangerous as its opponents claim?238November 28 2025
63Labour really are total bastards238May 23 2025
64First they came for the Quakers238March 29 2025
65Reeves is still peddling the household analogy238January 18 2025
66To improve well-being we must abandon failed economic ideas237June 24 2026
67The power structures within society are all wrong – and no one is saying so237December 23 2024
68The politics of privilege are what the farmers’ protests are all about237November 20 2024
69We really are living in dangerous times237December 13 2025
70Farewell Sir Keir Starmer MP237September 1 2026
71Consider this236July 28 2025
72It really is time to nationalise water235June 19 2025
73Time to end the House of Windsor234February 19 2026
74Ministerial bollocks234April 7 2025
75The significance of Mr Mountbatten-Windsor233October 31 2025
76Why are we listening to Fiona Hill?233June 7 2025
77Giving a damn233February 24 2025
78Universities never realised they were harbouring the ideology that now seeks to kill them233July 7 2025
79Ending the toxic politics that is breaking the UK, and the world beyond233December 20 2023
80The media must be held to account232May 24 2025
81We will be better off without the Tories231August 21 2025
82Is Starmer spreading complete misinformation on defence?230June 3 2025
83Labour is playing to the fascists whilst hurting hundreds of thousands of people.230May 12 2025
84Channel 4 should hang its head in shame: A review of ‘The Great ADHD myth?’230August 19 2026
85Labour: too indifferent to democracy to care about its future229December 22 2024
86I don’t share values with Trump’s USA, and never will229February 15 2025
87A profoundly hostile world, where the odds are stacked in favour of a desperate few229June 13 2025
88Labour can’t recover from this228August 2 2025
89The role of social media in economic reform228July 28 2025
90Finding a better song to sing228October 25 2024
91If Braverman wants to brand me as an extremist, I plead guilty227November 5 2023
92PFI is back – and it will be at cost to us all226September 9 2025
93This is the time for some seriously grown up politics226March 2 2025
94Special relationship? I don’t think so226April 30 2025
95Please don’t abuse225July 23 2025
96Rarely have we ever marched into the unknown so ill-equipped to manage the consequences225March 6 2026
97An update224June 24 2026
98Democracy is almost over in the States224May 22 2025
99Rachel Reeves is planning on repeating all the mistakes Gordon Brown made224August 13 2024
100All Rachel Reeves has to do now is wait for the crash224November 17 2024
101Five quick reforms the NHS urgently needs224December 11 2024
102The FT needs to get its head around wealth, and the need to tax it223July 13 2025
103Due notice to the trolls223August 26 2026
104There is no economic crisis in the UK. So why is Rachel Reeves making people suffer?223September 2 2024
105When truth departs – as it is doing from the political field – we are in very deep trouble223July 11 2025
106My unease with flags223August 21 2025
107What is the UK really going to be short of?223May 7 2025
108The sociocide of the wealthy223August 16 2025
109It really is time to go for PR222May 11 2026
110Starmer’s new climate policy is unforgivable222October 4 2024
111Christianity, Starmer and the far-right221April 20 2025
112The water company crisis just got worse, thanks to Labour221May 16 2025
113The biggest challenge to Labour is Starmer221May 30 2025
114Labour is making a mockery of the rule of law221July 6 2025
115Has a more stupid man, so unable to read the runes, ever occupied No. 10?221April 13 2025
116Apple against the grain221February 26 2025
117Oh shit221February 13 2025
118Does the US Congress know what socialism is?220November 22 2025
119Streeting: rotten to the core220February 18 2025
120Labour is becoming the enemy of the vulnerable219March 11 2025
121The UK benefits system is broken219March 16 2025
122The UK will not be going to the IMF for a bailout218June 9 2026
123Rod Stewart: extremely wealthy and deeply out of touch218June 29 2025
124The failure of British politics218February 4 2025
125Trump comes for the scientists217January 25 2025
126The power elite has drawn up the drawbridge216September 18 2025
127Trump is unleashing terror216January 23 2025
128Democracy does not matter to Labour216January 2 2025
129Wes Streeting’s exercise in thought control216December 4 2025
130This is what fascism looks like216June 6 2026
131Someone, somewhere, has it in for Rachel Reeves216February 13 2025
132The ethics of the Starmer’s clothing216September 15 2024
133What sort of insanity is this?215April 24 2025
134Keeping things in proportion215March 22 2025
135Tackling the nonsense talked about the national debt, and its cost215December 31 2023
136Storms and teacups215August 6 2025
137Overcoming fear215August 26 2023
138Labour really are bastards, and are intent on proving it215May 25 2025
139I have to live with this215May 2 2025
140I must be winning214August 29 2026
141Keir Starmer does not know what he believes – but has achieved his goal214February 9 2026
142If Keir Starmer understood this one blog post he could transform the UK214June 3 2025
143It’s complicated, and that’s the problem no one wants to face214June 4 2025
144One paper got today’s visit by the President of Israel right214September 10 2025
145The world is in need of courageous people214July 10 2025
146UK politician’s credit card con-trick on the people of this country214February 10 2024
147Of Corbyn and Sultana, and the future of democracy213July 25 2025
148The FT view: make the vulnerable pay for failing neoliberalism213September 2 2026
149Growth is not coming back213October 29 2025
150Will Labour rise to the challenge from Musk?213December 2 2024
151Wes Streeting’s NHS redundancies make no sense213April 8 2025
152Is Keir Starmer a worse Prime Minister than Liz Truss?213January 25 2025
153We are living in a fucked up world213April 17 2025
154Might Trump fail soon?213April 27 2025
155Starmer’s finally found what he’s good at212October 26 2025
156The white collar world is falling apart212November 2 2025
157Why the rich aren’t leaving, or coming, to the UK211September 8 2024
158Hints of dissent211February 1 2025
159Reform wants to destroy government and the economy as we know it210January 13 2025
160The great energy rip-off210April 21 2025
161A six does it210May 2 2025
162Christmas blogging210December 22 2023
163The late Jason Arday210August 15 2026
164Blogged out210October 5 2024
165The money Rachel Reeves needs is readily available. All that is lacking is the understanding on how to use it209June 1 2025
166 Why is Labour picking on pensioners?209September 10 2024
167Gary Stevenson is right: we need tax expertise to tackle wealth209September 1 2025
168The depravity of Rachel Reeves’ Mais lecture209March 19 2024
169Reeves is way out of her depth209March 23 2025
170Farage is out to screw them209June 26 2026
171Starmer is the NHS’s problem209December 13 2025
172Once might just be a mistake. Twice proves it isn’t.209February 22 2025
173Badenoch and Starmer: fascist enablers209May 15 2025
174Trump’s been snookered by China208April 14 2025
175One of the greatest of Labour’s sins208August 3 2025
176There is always more than one way of seeing things208August 29 2025
177Labour’s plan for Britain is austerity piled high207December 3 2023
178MMT in the Guardian207March 19 2026
179Labour is revolting207September 8 2024
180Keir 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
181The national debt has just fallen by £1.5 trillion207November 27 2024
182Emeritus Professor207December 12 2024
183Trump is serious: he wants Greenland207January 26 2025
184We need deep thinking on delivery, and only get slogans206December 3 2025
185Musk has discovered modern monetary theory206March 18 2025
186Trump’s march towards full-on fascism is proceeding at pace206February 26 2025
187People are suffering because our politicians, economists and media are failing us206December 28 2024
188Poor, petrified, non-doms are terrified that they might have to pay some tax206April 13 2024
189Panic in New York205June 26 2025
190MMT and rules of government borrowing205September 3 2025
191Intelligence services205August 9 2025
192This will end in tears205December 28 2024
193Why won’t Labour tax wealth?205March 30 2025
194What is possible now?205May 10 2026
195What would a courageous government do?205August 26 2026
196Rachel Reeves is wrong about debt interest204September 29 2025
197Why doesn’t the news media talk about the real issues in life?204January 2 2025
198If growth is out of road, what are the reasons to be cheerful?204January 19 2025
199Farage wants to tear us apart204February 23 2026
200Why sell UK assets abroad when the government should be buying them instead?204February 26 2026
201Starmer: a man way out of his depth when dealing with the NHS204September 13 2024
202Palantir is not just a tech company204August 23 2025
203Why do we want a deal with the thugs running the USA?204April 24 2025
204Who is taking money from private medcine?204March 30 2025
205A note to the trolls204April 22 2025
206Are Labour ministers guilty of joint enterprise crimes on Gaza?204May 21 2025
207We are at a moment in history where the truth has to be stated203May 5 2025
208The economic choice facing us is who matters? The people of this country, or the wealthy and the City?203October 10 2024
209Thames Water is bust: our politicians need to deal with it203April 7 2024
210Kendall’s performative callousness203March 19 2025
211Rachel Reeves’ new wheeze: punishing those who live in social housing with above inflation rent rises203August 21 2024
212It’s time Labour saved the children203April 11 2025
213The coming private debt crisis will be Rachel Reeves’ fault203February 3 2025
214Labour’s closing down sale203May 9 2026
215Why is Labour talking total economic nonsense to justify its desperate desire to keep children in poverty?203May 27 2025
216When the world changes, so should the Chancellor202February 16 2025
217Wealth tax, or increased taxes on the income and gains from wealth?202March 19 2025
218The government of Israel has to go: peace requires it202June 14 2025
219Starmer has been defeated and has not a shred of credibility left202July 1 2025
220Starmer’s actions on Palestine were unforgivable202July 30 2025
221Can Rayner survive?201September 4 2025
222Reeves can take on nature and alienate millions by doing so201January 29 2025
223Starmer’s J-turn201May 22 2025
224Is it all Rachel Reeves’ fault?201December 17 2024
225The Bank of England is continuing to engineer a recession – and Rachel Reeves is letting it do so201September 20 2024
226Labour: past its sell-by-date201May 14 2026
227The alternative economists, coming to a stage sometime soon?201September 12 2024
228Rachel Reeves is going for broke200July 29 2024
229Game over: this war was unjustified200March 17 2026
230Rarely have people so stupid done so much harm200May 12 2025
231The illness of Charles III200February 6 2024
232Labour’s cry babies200September 11 2024
233It’s time to change UK energy pricing200February 25 2025
234Trump’s tariffs aren’t meant to make economic sense200April 5 2025
235In the face of genocide our basic human rights must be retained, and not be eroded199July 2 2025
236Nine people need to go at the Bank of England199December 9 2025
237Why, Labour? Why?199December 15 2025
238The next crash could be much bigger than the last two199December 10 2024
239The FT is living in its own little fantasy world199July 21 2026
240The world needs to realise that we are at war with a fascist tyrant in the USA199April 4 2025
241Wes Streeting appears utterly indifferent to the harm he will cause199November 14 2024
242Why are we still handing massive unearned bungs to UK commercial banks?199April 16 2026
243The failure of Musk is not by chance199May 31 2025
244How far has Labour fallen?199April 22 2026
245Observing the mess198September 6 2025
246Europe’s energy pricing system could have devastating political consequences198September 4 2026
247Might Zak Polanski provide a moment (or more) of hope?198September 2 2025
248The old narratives are dead. We are waiting for the new to be born198December 23 2024
249The total intellectual vacuum amongst our politicians198January 3 2025
250Why it matters that government spending comes before tax198August 9 2025
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