{"id":96538,"date":"2026-10-24T16:16:04","date_gmt":"2026-10-24T15:16:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=96538"},"modified":"2026-10-24T16:16:04","modified_gmt":"2026-10-24T15:16:04","slug":"the-fourcast-the-system-is-failing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2026\/10\/24\/the-fourcast-the-system-is-failing\/","title":{"rendered":"The Fourcast: The System is Failing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=_wrhACxoTrE&amp;list=PLXjqQf1xYLQ6jvo0ErJ2a-UVlnDrAon8G&amp;index=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">came out from Channel 4<\/a> this afternoon:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/_wrhACxoTrE?si=xTnKyq6qnd_SJyzx\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The interview happened on Thursday afternoon, and publication was delayed as a result of technical problems with my video, which are apparent if you watch this. I gather Channel 4 decided to, unusually, push this out despite that because they believed what I had to say was sufficiently interesting.<\/p>\n<p>I enjoyed the interview.<\/p>\n<p>Krishnan Guru-Murthy had done his background reading.<\/p>\n<p>I think I won all my points. Time and again, Vicky Pryce had to say I had a good point, unless she was talking total nonsense when, for example, denying that we live in a neoliberal state.<\/p>\n<p>Krishnan Guru-Murthy also had to support my arguments on occasion.<\/p>\n<p>Readers here will recognise many of the points I made.<\/p>\n<p>The good news was getting these views onto a mainstream channel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This came out from Channel 4 this afternoon: The interview happened on Thursday afternoon, and publication was delayed as a result of technical problems with<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2026\/10\/24\/the-fourcast-the-system-is-failing\/\"><em> Read the full article&#8230;<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[136,204,35,16,147,174,224,106,223],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-96538","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-city-of-london","category-economic-justice","category-economics","category-ethics","category-inequality","category-modern-monetary-theory","category-neoliberalism","category-politics","category-politics-of-care"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96538","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=96538"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96538\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":96541,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96538\/revisions\/96541"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}