Funding the Future
Steve Keen on the housing crisis
When all that’s left is the rentier economy
Bonds and the bond markets
The Quantum Essays: You can try it if you like, but you’d far better notter
It is time we got on with the process of change
We need a Basic British Bank
Economcs questions: the John Rawls question
Nationalism – good or bad?
Starmer’s finally found what he’s good at
Cathedrals, cannons and Cromwell: lessons in power
Ireland says no to neoliberalism
Why the Tories deserve the fate they are suffering.
We are in a fight for democracy
A day on, Caerphilly is still giving me hope
Trump’s marching East
Economic myths: your opinion is sought
Ireland is moving against neoliberalism
Economic questions: The E F Schumacher question
Caerphilly brings hope
The moral case for tax
The great British energy rip-off is now killing our green energy hopes – and the chance of cheaper electricity
Why does the government tackle benefit fraud and ignore tax cheats? Could it be prejudice?
Economic questions: the Joseph Schumpeter question
Talking with Zach Polanski
Why 2% inflation?
The Scottish Currency Group conference
Fools, the ability to think, and crashes
Inflation: there’s nothing to say except the big question no one wants to ask
Andrew Windsor, the media, and the wrong question
What is the UK’s real debt crisis?
Prince Andrew: still too privileged?
There will be a lot of nonsense talked about government borrowing today
The working day
Bonds
As a government, Labour has not added an iota of value to the UK
Not bad
Why most tax rises now would be economic madness
English A-level? For migrants? Why?
What I mean by political economy
Solution-foscused thinking
Blurring boundaries
Government debt is private wealth, so why do people want to get rid of it?
Question Time, and more
The difficulty of building political economic narratives based on metaphors
The Chinese have worked it out: stablecoins are the privatisation of money
Why do I still do this at 67?
Rachel Reeves’ nasty prejudice is coming into play
Quantum(ish) Essay: What if Darwin was wrong? The case for the survival of the wisest
It’s time for democracy to topple those who would be king
When will the Trump bubble burst?
Bitcoin is falling again
Quantum economics from the perspective of quantum biology: Coupling and Uncoupling
What do you do when the target’s wrong?
Labour’s shame and Tory delusion: how mediocrity took power
People are consigning Labour and the Tories to history
Radio 5 this morning
Quantum economics from the perspective of quantum biology: The circuit of value and its pathologies
Not on the Budget bingo card
We could have avoided a crash
Britain’s housing market is a giant Ponzi scheme
What is the harm of trying?
The IMNF can’t join the dots between interest rates and inflation
Reeves really is doing her best to fail
Quantum economics from the perspective of quantum biology: Labour, value and reflection
The IMF is now saying it’s time to worry
Crypto or AI — which bubble bursts first?
Economic myths: perfect competition
Climate change is lapping at your door
Why are both the UK’s major political parties running out of talent?
More on impact
Farage, crypto and failure
Quantum economics from the perspective of quantum biology: the prologue
Neoliberalism is dying. What comes next?
Economic myths: homo economicus
Markets are shrugging their shoulders
Measuring impact
Why is Labour hanging our universities out to dry?
Colonisation, 2025 style
Protest is democracy in motion, not a crime
How big might the crash be?
Is the crash happening?
On birdwatching
Economic questions: the Hyman Minsky question
The Quantum Essays: The quantum difference between work and speculation
Where I still find hope for democracy in the UK
Can the global economy survive another shock?
Thiel and the Antichrist
Who will pay to rebuild Gaza?
The Quantum Essays: Where are the checks on entropy in the UK system now?
The inequality lie
Christianists
The Quantum Essays: Where are the checks on entropy in the US system now?
If Rachel Reeves must raise taxes, the basic rate of income tax is the worst place to start
Nigel Farage’s declaration of war on teachers is a war on compassion, empathy and kindness
Talking the language of courage
Water privatisation has failed: now it is time to move on
Japan is teaching us the lesson that without serious levels of inward migration we’re going to be in deep trouble
If Labour will pay more for drugs but not increase funds for the NHS, who do they expect to take the pain?
Is it now game over for the Tories?
Right wing equivalents to the fascists of the thirties are back on the march
What if the UK admitted it uses MMT and turned that into its superpower?
Strong, durable, and everlasting peace?
Looking for economic reality to set in
The Tory party is now proposing tyranny
The Quantum Essays: Democracy as negentropy: why fascism is the politics of death
Drunk by design: how cities are forcing young people to drink
Inequality is not falling
Has AI broken the job market?
Why we need to ask ‘Why do people feel the need to protest?’
Crypto’s murky core — and why the bubble must burst
What would Keynes, Galbraith and Beveridge say now?
Progress towards a police state
What happens when £47 billion disappears from Britain’s economy?
Tory plans to cut aid are racism in action
The neoliberal centre cannot hold
Are the Tories’ policies racist?
How long is it before promoting Scottish, Welsh and Irish independence is deemed to be a terrorist action?
The Quantum Essays: The meaning of life, negentropy, and the politics of staying alive
Reform is failing
Are Reform’s policies racist?
The government should stop wasting time on gesture politics and deliver evenhandedness instead
Britain is not in the doghouse
New migrants
Using ChatGPT and other AI prompts to support campaigning
Jews are divided by Netanyahu and the actions of Israel
Whatever became of the Affluent Society?
The Quantum Essays: Schrödinger, entropy, equilibrium, and the lessons for society
Are the Tories facing oblivion?
Getting the message out there
What is fascism?
The Courageous State
The aftermath of the Manchester attack
American troops in US cities
The US is now a fascist state
The Greens plan to abolish interest payments on central bank reserve accounts
Let’s be clear: Starmer is a racist too
Economic questions: The J K Galbraith question
Will it be women who fight tyranny?
The Telegraph is right: Reeves should not increase taxes on lower and average income earners
Are politicians all the same, as people would have it?
Fascism, Trump, Reform, and the silencing of dissent
Farage vs Workers