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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
4Do we have the right to question police violence?300May 3 2026
5Panorama: an exercise in economic misinformation294June 3 2025
6It’s going to be torture as the path to Starmer’s inevitable demise is rolled out283February 8 2025
7Is Trump mad or bad?280January 24 2025
8Whether Labour likes it or not, we will move on279July 18 2025
9The bastards are out to exploit again279February 2 2025
10I don’t apologise for being so angry273March 19 2025
11To my angry and disgusted commentator: a reply272November 5 2023
12While the world watches the circus, the country is falling apart272November 1 2025
13Starmer v Haigh, the lessons learned267November 30 2024
14We need more people like Hannah Spencer264February 24 2026
15Keir Starmer has never understood264April 26 2025
16Why Rachel Reeves is making a mess of things264November 15 2025
17We have the right to use plain words to express plain sentiment in a plain way264July 17 2025
18Zack Polanski’s economic direction263March 18 2026
19There is class warfare going on in this country now, and it is Labour waging it on the people of the UK262October 15 2024
20Labour, sinking261September 14 2025
21Neoliberal abuse260August 4 2025
22If Labour will not stop Farage, then it – and the country – are consigned to history260February 9 2025
23This might be the tipping point259March 1 2026
24How to manage the cost of government borrowing259May 12 2026
25There are so many questions, and so few answers258April 16 2025
26474 people258August 10 2025
27It’s time that the left’s nitpickers got real256February 23 2025
28What is hard left about caring?255July 5 2025
29This could be as bad as 1929, and maybe very much worse254May 16 2026
30Wes Streeting is a disgrace253April 8 2024
31Clive Lewis: the Labour MP who gets it252May 11 2026
32Farmers protesting about inheritance tax have got their econonics and arguments wrong252November 18 2024
33The axis of evil250March 12 2026
34Pie theory250August 6 2025
35MMT v fascism249November 6 2025
36Starmer exposed249September 18 2024
37The Guardian is part of the problem247June 15 2025
38The contemptuous games that Labour plays247April 18 2025
39Unless Labour listens and learns we are in big trouble247August 4 2024
40The significance of the Epstein files247July 19 2025
41Ethnic cleansing247August 5 2025
42Capitalism, my arse246September 29 2025
43Of 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
44My concerns about Gary Stevenson’s economics of wealth245August 7 2025
45Don’t trust Wes Streeting’s NHS consultation245October 21 2024
46Burnham v Starmer: it’s not hard to decide244September 28 2025
47Starmer has to be next244September 11 2025
48This is what terrorism looks like243August 31 2025
49Why is the government obsessed with benefit fraud?242February 21 2025
50Labour politics is now about rule by indifference that seeks to impose cruelty242April 22 2025
51The Tory view of British values241March 2 2024
52Tariffs, fascism, and the required response241March 28 2025
53The hypocrisy of bankers needs to come to an end240November 27 2025
54Is Labour now the worst government of the last fifteen years?239January 23 2025
55Rachel Reeves’ nasty prejudice is coming into play238October 18 2025
56Is MMT as dangerous as its opponents claim?238November 28 2025
57Labour really are total bastards238May 23 2025
58Reeves is still peddling the household analogy238January 18 2025
59First they came for the Quakers237March 29 2025
60The power structures within society are all wrong – and no one is saying so237December 23 2024
61The politics of privilege are what the farmers’ protests are all about237November 20 2024
62We really are living in dangerous times237December 13 2025
63Consider this236July 28 2025
64It really is time to nationalise water235June 19 2025
65Time to end the House of Windsor234February 19 2026
66Ministerial bollocks234April 7 2025
67The significance of Mr Mountbatten-Windsor233October 31 2025
68Why are we listening to Fiona Hill?233June 7 2025
69Giving a damn233February 24 2025
70Universities never realised they were harbouring the ideology that now seeks to kill them233July 7 2025
71Ending the toxic politics that is breaking the UK, and the world beyond233December 20 2023
72The media must be held to account232May 24 2025
73We will be better off without the Tories231August 21 2025
74Labour is playing to the fascists whilst hurting hundreds of thousands of people.230May 12 2025
75Is Starmer spreading complete misinformation on defence?230June 3 2025
76Labour: too indifferent to democracy to care about its future229December 22 2024
77I don’t share values with Trump’s USA, and never will229February 15 2025
78A profoundly hostile world, where the odds are stacked in favour of a desperate few229June 13 2025
79Labour can’t recover from this228August 2 2025
80The role of social media in economic reform228July 28 2025
81Finding a better song to sing228October 25 2024
82If Braverman wants to brand me as an extremist, I plead guilty227November 5 2023
83PFI is back – and it will be at cost to us all226September 9 2025
84This is the time for some seriously grown up politics226March 2 2025
85Special relationship? I don’t think so226April 30 2025
86Please don’t abuse225July 23 2025
87Rarely have we ever marched into the unknown so ill-equipped to manage the consequences225March 6 2026
88Democracy is almost over in the States224May 22 2025
89Rachel Reeves is planning on repeating all the mistakes Gordon Brown made224August 13 2024
90All Rachel Reeves has to do now is wait for the crash224November 17 2024
91Five quick reforms the NHS urgently needs224December 11 2024
92The FT needs to get its head around wealth, and the need to tax it223July 13 2025
93There is no economic crisis in the UK. So why is Rachel Reeves making people suffer?223September 2 2024
94When truth departs – as it is doing from the political field – we are in very deep trouble223July 11 2025
95My unease with flags223August 21 2025
96What is the UK really going to be short of?223May 7 2025
97The sociocide of the wealthy223August 16 2025
98It really is time to go for PR222May 11 2026
99Starmer’s new climate policy is unforgivable222October 4 2024
100Christianity, Starmer and the far-right221April 20 2025
101The water company crisis just got worse, thanks to Labour221May 16 2025
102The biggest challenge to Labour is Starmer221May 30 2025
103Labour is making a mockery of the rule of law221July 6 2025
104Has a more stupid man, so unable to read the runes, ever occupied No. 10?221April 13 2025
105Apple against the grain221February 26 2025
106Oh shit221February 13 2025
107Does the US Congress know what socialism is?220November 22 2025
108Streeting: rotten to the core220February 18 2025
109Labour is becoming the enemy of the vulnerable219March 11 2025
110The UK benefits system is broken219March 16 2025
111The failure of British politics218February 4 2025
112Trump comes for the scientists217January 25 2025
113Rod Stewart: extremely wealthy and deeply out of touch217June 29 2025
114Trump is unleashing terror216January 23 2025
115Democracy does not matter to Labour216January 2 2025
116Wes Streeting’s exercise in thought control216December 4 2025
117Someone, somewhere, has it in for Rachel Reeves216February 13 2025
118The ethics of the Starmer’s clothing216September 15 2024
119The power elite has drawn up the drawbridge216September 18 2025
120Keeping things in proportion215March 22 2025
121Storms and teacups215August 6 2025
122Tackling the nonsense talked about the national debt, and its cost215December 31 2023
123Labour really are bastards, and are intent on proving it215May 25 2025
124Overcoming fear215August 26 2023
125I have to live with this215May 2 2025
126What sort of insanity is this?215April 24 2025
127Keir Starmer does not know what he believes – but has achieved his goal214February 9 2026
128If Keir Starmer understood this one blog post he could transform the UK214June 3 2025
129It’s complicated, and that’s the problem no one wants to face214June 4 2025
130One paper got today’s visit by the President of Israel right214September 10 2025
131The world is in need of courageous people214July 10 2025
132UK politician’s credit card con-trick on the people of this country214February 10 2024
133Growth is not coming back213October 29 2025
134Will Labour rise to the challenge from Musk?213December 2 2024
135Wes Streeting’s NHS redundancies make no sense213April 8 2025
136Is Keir Starmer a worse Prime Minister than Liz Truss?213January 25 2025
137We are living in a fucked up world213April 17 2025
138Might Trump fail soon?213April 27 2025
139Of Corbyn and Sultana, and the future of democracy213July 25 2025
140Starmer’s finally found what he’s good at212October 26 2025
141The white collar world is falling apart212November 2 2025
142Why the rich aren’t leaving, or coming, to the UK211September 8 2024
143Hints of dissent211February 1 2025
144Reform wants to destroy government and the economy as we know it210January 13 2025
145The great energy rip-off210April 21 2025
146A six does it210May 2 2025
147Christmas blogging210December 22 2023
148Blogged out210October 5 2024
149The money Rachel Reeves needs is readily available. All that is lacking is the understanding on how to use it209June 1 2025
150Gary Stevenson is right: we need tax expertise to tackle wealth209September 1 2025
151The depravity of Rachel Reeves’ Mais lecture209March 19 2024
152Reeves is way out of her depth209March 23 2025
153Starmer is the NHS’s problem209December 13 2025
154Once might just be a mistake. Twice proves it isn’t.209February 22 2025
155Badenoch and Starmer: fascist enablers209May 15 2025
156 Why is Labour picking on pensioners?208September 10 2024
157Trump’s been snookered by China208April 14 2025
158One of the greatest of Labour’s sins208August 3 2025
159There is always more than one way of seeing things208August 29 2025
160MMT in the Guardian207March 19 2026
161Labour’s plan for Britain is austerity piled high207December 3 2023
162Labour is revolting207September 8 2024
163Keir 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
164The national debt has just fallen by £1.5 trillion207November 27 2024
165Emeritus Professor207December 12 2024
166Trump is serious: he wants Greenland207January 26 2025
167Musk has discovered modern monetary theory206March 18 2025
168Trump’s march towards full-on fascism is proceeding at pace206February 26 2025
169People are suffering because our politicians, economists and media are failing us206December 28 2024
170Poor, petrified, non-doms are terrified that they might have to pay some tax206April 13 2024
171We need deep thinking on delivery, and only get slogans206December 3 2025
172Intelligence services205August 9 2025
173This will end in tears205December 28 2024
174Why won’t Labour tax wealth?205March 30 2025
175What is possible now?205May 10 2026
176Panic in New York205June 26 2025
177Why doesn’t the news media talk about the real issues in life?204January 2 2025
178If growth is out of road, what are the reasons to be cheerful?204January 19 2025
179Farage wants to tear us apart204February 23 2026
180Why sell UK assets abroad when the government should be buying them instead?204February 26 2026
181Starmer: a man way out of his depth when dealing with the NHS204September 13 2024
182Palantir is not just a tech company204August 23 2025
183Why do we want a deal with the thugs running the USA?204April 24 2025
184Who is taking money from private medcine?204March 30 2025
185A note to the trolls204April 22 2025
186Are Labour ministers guilty of joint enterprise crimes on Gaza?204May 21 2025
187Rachel Reeves is wrong about debt interest204September 29 2025
188We are at a moment in history where the truth has to be stated203May 5 2025
189The economic choice facing us is who matters? The people of this country, or the wealthy and the City?203October 10 2024
190Thames Water is bust: our politicians need to deal with it203April 7 2024
191Kendall’s performative callousness203March 19 2025
192Rachel Reeves’ new wheeze: punishing those who live in social housing with above inflation rent rises203August 21 2024
193It’s time Labour saved the children203April 11 2025
194The coming private debt crisis will be Rachel Reeves’ fault203February 3 2025
195Labour’s closing down sale203May 9 2026
196Why is Labour talking total economic nonsense to justify its desperate desire to keep children in poverty?203May 27 2025
197MMT and rules of government borrowing202September 3 2025
198Wealth tax, or increased taxes on the income and gains from wealth?202March 19 2025
199The government of Israel has to go: peace requires it202June 14 2025
200Starmer has been defeated and has not a shred of credibility left202July 1 2025
201Starmer’s actions on Palestine were unforgivable202July 30 2025
202When the world changes, so should the Chancellor202February 16 2025
203Can Rayner survive?201September 4 2025
204Reeves can take on nature and alienate millions by doing so201January 29 2025
205Starmer’s J-turn201May 22 2025
206Is it all Rachel Reeves’ fault?201December 17 2024
207The Bank of England is continuing to engineer a recession – and Rachel Reeves is letting it do so201September 20 2024
208Labour: past its sell-by-date201May 14 2026
209The alternative economists, coming to a stage sometime soon?201September 12 2024
210Rachel Reeves is going for broke200July 29 2024
211Game over: this war was unjustified200March 17 2026
212Rarely have people so stupid done so much harm200May 12 2025
213The illness of Charles III200February 6 2024
214Labour’s cry babies200September 11 2024
215It’s time to change UK energy pricing200February 25 2025
216Trump’s tariffs aren’t meant to make economic sense200April 5 2025
217In the face of genocide our basic human rights must be retained, and not be eroded199July 2 2025
218Nine people need to go at the Bank of England199December 9 2025
219Why, Labour? Why?199December 15 2025
220The next crash could be much bigger than the last two199December 10 2024
221The world needs to realise that we are at war with a fascist tyrant in the USA199April 4 2025
222Wes Streeting appears utterly indifferent to the harm he will cause199November 14 2024
223The failure of Musk is not by chance199May 31 2025
224How far has Labour fallen?199April 22 2026
225Might Zak Polanski provide a moment (or more) of hope?198September 2 2025
226The old narratives are dead. We are waiting for the new to be born198December 23 2024
227The total intellectual vacuum amongst our politicians198January 3 2025
228Why it matters that government spending comes before tax198August 9 2025
229Labour ministers who thought that freezing benefit payments was appropriate are not fit to hold public office198March 16 2025
230Why are we still handing massive unearned bungs to UK commercial banks?198April 16 2026
231We need a new paradigm198September 25 2025
232The real risk of system breakdown198April 14 2026
233Government-created inflation is back198May 21 2025
234The 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
235Observing the mess198September 6 2025
236Trump’s assault on the USA: seeking an explanation197March 23 2025
237It’s not the job of the BBC to edit anti-fascist comments197February 17 2025
238Does Labour just not care?197November 24 2024
239Liked the parrot nailed to the perch; growth is no more. It is ex-growth. 196August 14 2025
240Zack Polanski, migration, the Greens, and an economics of care196December 26 2025
241What 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
242How did a man like Starmer become prime minister?196June 14 2025
243Reeves really is doing her best to fail196October 15 2025
244Farage, the cave, and pushing the Overton window aside195September 28 2025
245If we had a wise Home Secretary195February 13 2026
246How far can these callous idiots fall?195November 17 2025
247Fatigue195March 7 2026
248Economic paralysis195May 23 2026
249More economic folly from Rachel Reeves195January 28 2025
250Has Wes Streeting been reading the Taxing Wealth Report?195May 21 2026
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