Funding the Future
The printing money myth
Global water bankruptcy
Economic questions: the Joan Robinson question
The new comment editor
Don’t forget Covid
Where does money go in a crash?
The government borrowing myth
National 13-3-26
Deranged, deluded, in denial and evil
The truth about the “magic money tree”
Do we need neoliberals in charge of the BBC and Ofcom?
A South Dorset Funding the Future group?
Why is our economy fragile?
MMT, and the lessons of war
This war will last for decades
The axis of evil
I am tired of war
Where did you come from?
Libel law still needs reform
Mandelson
Goodbye, your Lordships
Interest rates can’t fix inflation now
Never doubt the callousness of private sector markets
Self interest generallyis not enlightened
Unless we care, we cannot change the world
The consequences of war
Is that too much to hope for?
What should Rachel Reeves do now?
The oil crisis is creating profits, not just shortages
Priorities
The real cost of war
Am I alone in thinking all this?
An appeal for help
Defence begins at home
Why government surpluses can crash the economy
Moderation data
The case for a windfall oil tax is overwhelming
Will we never learn?
Does the government create wealth?
Fatigue – the follow up
A financial crash might now be the least of our worries
The national debt need never be paid off
The Bored of Peace
An article as rare as hen’s teeth
Whatever it is, please just do it
Reflections
Fatigue
Will Middle East war trigger economic shock?
Government deficits are not failure
How long can Trump keep this going?
Market meltdown?
The coming crisis
Making false claims about MMT is not useful
Rarely have we ever marched into the unknown so ill-equipped to manage the consequences
Does the UK government have any concept of joined-up policy?
War is not a reason to raise interest rates
Which way do we go around the roundabout?
Mayhem continues
Will I see you in Edinburgh?
Billionaires won’t leave if we tax them
Who is going to gain from Rachel Reeves’ stability?
And now the US is fighting in Ecuador
Reform is predominantly comprised of racists
The insanity of war
Political economy at Cambridge – from the live event
Don’t change the politicians: change the system
With Jeremy Vine
Today’s forecasts are wrong – and by so much nothing they suggest can be right
The Reeves live blog
The rainbow coalition is on
The new political landscape
Rachel Reeves’ spreadsheets won’t be balanced
Is this war all about the dollar?
Where to from here?
Rachel Reeves will get it all wrong today
It’s not that those on the left lack principles. The whole point is, they have them.
Labour voters start to need rethinking
Needs are not determined by Whitehall budgets
Why the politics of care, and not the politics of well-being?
Why does Starmer want a war?
Rachel Reeves’ forecasts will all be wrong
Are we all modern monetary theorists when the chips are down?
Tax does not fund spending
This might be the tipping point
The Bank of England must not be stupid it we get inflation as a result of this war
Dubai, anyone?
Ridding politics of people like Simons is not just desirable
On corrupt Zionism
Thank you
Why good economics can feel wrong
We can’t run out of emails
Might Labour come fourth in Scotland?
A political economy of care from Adam Smith to now
Today
We have to deal with a new world of toxic politics
Last night’s YouTube short: Where government money really comes from
Keir Starmer: our interim Prime Minister
Modern monetary theory isn’t “just theory”: it describes how the UK really works
The new burden on the Greens
Some more thoughts
Hannah Spencer MP’s speech
Starmer’s days are numbered
The Greens: a new force in British politics
What’s the biggest secret about money?
There is hope, after all, thanks to the people of Gorton and Denton
Reform and income tax
Why sell UK assets abroad when the government should be buying them instead?
Cooperation with the Canary
The real far-right agenda
What’s the economic truth the BBC’s hiding?
Reform is setting out to deceive
Will Trump be stripped of his gains?
Last night, in Ely
Tomorrow night, in Norwich
If capitalism is failing, does cooperation come next?
New Labour is over
We need more people like Hannah Spencer
Thinking
Why have we got a monarchy?
Farage wants to tear us apart
Condemning ourselves to decline
Governments aren’t like households
Birding…
New glossary entry: health
Retreating
New glossary entry: the economics of failure
Is Big Pharma capturing the NHS?
Mallards
The stranger’s case
Labour fourth, the LibDems fifth and the Tories sixth: the times, they are a-changin’.
Yesterday, the USA took a step away from fascism
New glossary entry: markets
January’s record tax receipts: the real story that was not told
Why are people angry?
Crunch time for Trump
It’s time to own up
Do yout want to write a book review?
“Silence is no longer neutrality” : On the monarchy, accountability and reform
What we want now
What would happen if Britain deported two million workers?
Time to end the House of Windsor
People do want progressive taxation. We are a long way from having it.
What does Starmer think he’s doing?
In straight fights right wing parties could never win in the UK
Does limited liability protect the rich?
What to do? How do we communicate a politics of care?
New glossary entry: the politics of hate
The Flag
Anger is driving people towards the far right. Only care and hope can bring them back.
New glossary entry: the economics of hope
Economic questions: the Paul Samuelson question
First they came for the intellectuals
Are we going to be a racist state?
New glossary entry: The politics of hate
Don’t doubt it: fascism has support in the UK
Robert Lowe’s challenge is real: Do we want a politics of care, or of hate?
New glossary entry: microeconomics
Why do politicians really attack “woke” ideas?
Post-peak Farage
What can we do about corruption?
New glossary entry: Woke
Europe needs to wake up and be woke
Labours has outlived its usefulness
Economic questions: the John Ruskin question
Neoliberalism is the politics of destruction
New golossary entry: macroeconomics
New glossary entry: free markets
Snow stopped play
Finding your way around the blog
New glossary entry: pleonexia
Rubio’s message: join us in fascism, or else
New glossary entry: economics
Social security is not welfare
Starmer: the real extremist
Corruption is built into neoliberalism
Racism is not enough for Reform. They do misogny too.
SEND for the bankers
New glossary entry: balanced budgets
New glossary entry: the household analogy
Are we being conspired against?
Don’t be disabled in the UK
If we had a wise Home Secretary
Nigel’s flatlined
Teetering…
Conflicts of interest
Someone’s got to get muddy
Even the civil service are pushing back against Starmer
Where should we hold our next event?
We are cursed
You are not disposable
The UK does not have a welfare problem
The migrant speaks
Keir Starmer: the broken promises
Growth is not the answer: relieving poverty is
The NeoLiberal Democrats
Is Keir Starmer still fit to be Prime Minister?
The warm up act
Safe, secure, protected, with minimal charges
The UK isn’t a single nation. Are we in crisis because politicians keep pretending it is?
Neither Labour or the Resolution Foundation can solve the problems that real people face
The Resolution Foundation on poverty: the required responses
The finance curse is killing Britain
The Resolution Foundation’s “Unsung Britain” is an exercise in neoliberal excuse making for the politics of destruction
Vote Reform: get tax rises
The politics of destruction in action
Desperate people
The Royal speciality: creating PR disasters
The odds-on bet is that the royal’s days are numbered
The Hollow Man: Why Starmer is the ultimate neoliberal failure
Keir Starmer does not know what he believes – but has achieved his goal
Rule by a single party in Westminster is no longer credible. What’s next?
When will Keir Starmer leave office?
The US is funding our far-right
The costs of Labour’s chaos
The runners and riders, and viable outcomes
One down…..one, and then maybe many more, to go
The words will keep on flowing
Trump has the green light for concentration camps
An ageing model
Why are the princesses Beatrice and Eugenie still considered to be royal?
Can the Greens deliver?
Will Trump’s crypto bubble crash?
How can we maintain the right to hold the powerful to account?
The Cambridge event
Work is the curse of the social media classes
Will Trump’s bubble burst with crypto?
The fight against state-sponsored fascism
The odds are stacked against people
Knock it down?
Mandelson, Palantir, Israel and you
Keir Starmer is finished, but is he the only one with a bleak future?
We’re not living in an economy where politics for people matters
Politics for People: an update
The rise of the watermelons
What have Reform to do with Epstein?
Is the monarchy over?
Is Starmer over?
Why you need a pay rise
Politics for People and the political economy of care: the core principles
Politics for People – and why we have chosen the phrase
The Cambridge event
Why didn’t the media go for Mandelson before now?
There are no disposable people
Developing our thinking on the politics of care
What happens if Trump cancels the midterm elections?
Reform’s hollow promise
YouTube does not like “care”
Learning political poetry writing – taught by an angry poet
Noting the odds
The fallout from Mandelson
If GDP is a broken measure, why do politicians still worship it?
None of this makes sense
The price of exuberance
Corruption, damned corruption and neoliberal corruption
Is the UK over?
What do we want? Care or fascism? That’s the economic choice we now face
Cambridge – in case you want to join us
Reflections – 2
Reflections
What if Trump suspends US democracy?
Politics has run out of road
Are you receiving all the benefits to which you are entitled?
Kevin Warsh: a disaster in the making
The Funding the Future Conference – four weeks away now
Is Farage a fascist strongman?
Where are jobs going to come from when every current economic goal is to get rid of them?
Without data, the risk of a crash cannot be managed. We might be flying blind already.
40 million
Is neoliberalism dying: the debate
Guess who wins from racism?
Is your pension safe?
MMT is a theory, just as gravity is
The centre has not held
Labour: the friend of cheats, crooks, and conpeople
The S&P 500 at 7,000: the insanity of stock markets continues
Rebuilding the High Street with the politics of care
The poverty of care
AI does not care – and it is hard-coding neoliberalism
Labour is failing people by hidden design. Reform would do so explicitly.
Trump’s actions do not sell Farage’s narratives
Neoliberalism was not an accident
Lbour’a audit filure
The problem with AI is it just does not care
The biggest shocks of 2026 have yet to happen
What is happening with gold?
Are you the media now?
Reform: a care home for failed Tories
Crass news story of the day
Talking to the British Medical Journal
Creating a social media impact
Leith, 21 March 2026
Are we near a tipping point?
Keeping “my shit” together
Neoliberalism, Marxism and the USA share the same fatal flaw
The AI Bubble is a Prelude to a Much Bigger Economic Collapse
If the state can kill an observer and then lie about it, the question is not just who is safe, but who is believed.
Will Trump do for Farage?
Neoliberalism is dying: what’s next?
Time with white-fronts
Thinking time
Is defence about more than weaponry?
The new world we need is going to be messy – and that will be the foundation of its strength
How can we ensure that people get their say?
What to think now of Burnham?
Who must pay for war with Trump?
More sovereign US bases? I dont think so
Do we need a European Federation?
Mark Carney, the end of neoliberalism, and what comes next
The necessary post-Trump consensus
Global biodiversity loss, ecosystem collapse and UK national security.
Is 2026 going to be brutal for financial markets?
How to write a social media post
Can King Donald deliver?
2026 looks as if it will be a brutal year
Why Europe must act now: the post-NATO world has begun
Don’t ignore UK unemployment: it’s the breeding ground for domestic fascism
Does MMT apply to the Euro?
Isn’t it time to stop pretending and get off the fence?
You should never accommodate fascists
Is Trump evil?
What can you do now about the US threat to the world?
Will a US Treasury sell off work?
Saying ‘please’ nicely is not going to work with Trump
Denmark’s real defence mechanism is its pharmaceutical trade
MMT is not theory: it’s fact
Do we succumb to the politics of might, or choose the politics of care?
Why think about defence?
Can Europe rise to the US challenge?
GDP doesn’t buy life expectancy
Sharing time with a buzzard
Reading, elsewhere
The toxic politics of might and money
How to manage the AI economy
How to campaign with Funding the Future?
Glossary entry: Globalisation
Farage unravelled
The day of the dollar: is it over?
Toxic Tories
There is no pension crisis, but there is a political crisis that won’t address the issue of pensions
Contextualising data
What happens when the internet is turned off?
Liberals and the politics of care
A post-neoliberal consensus? Not on this basis
Glossary entry: the politics of care
What are we defending?
Is it time for England to go out on its own?
Wales has had enough of English politics
Wny won’t the media tell the truth?
People will not accept enforced prejudice
The politics of care in 2026
Scotland is moving in the right tax direction
Podcast: UBI and the Common Sense Policy Group
Trump, the dollar and you
Trump and the Fed: an MMT perspective
Putting SAD behind us
PDFs
The MMT Guide: your opinion is sought
Zahawi reveals some truths about Reform
Might or care? The political choice that will define our future
Standing Up to the Rise of Fascism
Meaning, care and adversity
Why not a think tank?
Speaker Mike Johnson and the denial of political freedom
Economic questions: the Erich Fromm Question
When AI, unemployment, and inflation collide
Keen’s Law
What to do?
Medicine is not neutral
Fascism: the view from the USA in 1945
Goosing
Facing fascism
Do you want to work less?
Unreasonable people
Renee Good was murdered and that needs to be acknowledged
Economic questions: the Wynne Godley question
What are we defending?
We, the people, feel the squeeze
AI is draining our energy
Who is going to trust the USA again?
Illth, wealth and GDP
The UK could end “shadowy maritime activity”
Is NATO about to collapse?
This will crash
What Badenoch and Starmer have in common
A polotics of care will be needed
Glossary entry: sectoral balances
Are government debt and trade deficits linked – and does it matter?
Why politicians won’t fix affordability
January 6 and the Power of Inaction
Most people in Scotland think Niogel Farage is a racist
Because a few are seeking to exploit the many the world must live in fear
Cambridge, 28 February 2026
Why is the US taking control of Venezuela?
Tyranny or care? The choice Britain must make in 2026
Venezuela and the Warning to Britain
Worry
Trump’s Trojan Horse in Europe
Is Scotland on Trump’s list?
The President of Venezuela did some bad things too
Capital is not just about finance
We have to live in hope
Who cares now?
Venezuela and freedom from fear
You’re not crazy
Venezuela, war, and Trump
By the light of the morning moon
Going short
AI on the scale now envisaged will create a recession on a scale hard to imagine
Trump: the greatest threat in 2026
Will the Bank of England base rate tumble in 2026?
Will AI create a new digital divide and drag the economy down?
Older consumers are rejecting the market
Campaigners against poverty must get their economics right
Can you hear the music?
There are no free markets
New Year’s Eve entertainment
Glossary entry: social capital
Glossary entry: human capital
Glossary entry: environmental capital
Glossary entry: financialisation
Glossary entry: financial engineering
Glossary entry: financial capitalism
The madness of financial capitalism
Glossary entry: Financial capital
Glossary entry: Borrower of last resort
Economic questions: the Richard Feynman question
Care matters, after all
What is private equity up to?
Where we go next in 2026
For how long is the pretence that we are a United Kingdom viable?
Glossary entry: Capital maintenance concepts
Glossary entry: Capital
Glossary entry: bond vigilantes
The correction begins
2026: the year politics breaks
Fools and their money are still being parted
Redfining capital as the basis for a politics of care: a task for 2026
Down time
The politics of light
Who is stealing the light?
Economic questions: the Karl Polanyi question
Light, entropy and why care keeps society alive
Boxing Day waders
Zak Polanski, migration, the Greens, and an economics of care
The economy runs on light
One the nature of light – entropy
Deficit myths at Christmas
Christmas and the gift of light
The light, this morning
Economic questions: the Schrödinger question
Thank you
Why light matters this Christmas
The MMT toolbox and why it matters
The risk of a crash is far from over
MMT and exchange rates
What we need for Christmas
There is no excuse for poverty in the UK
Glossary entry: land value taxation
Solstice birds
More MMT questions
My word of the year
MMT questions
Post-financialisation
The right way to tax wealth in 2026
Has public debt become unmanageable?
My talk at Keele
Christmas is weird
Full reserve banking
Funding the Future over the Christmas period
The Tax Research LLP accounts for 2025
Of course we are doing badly
What is really wrong with the NHS?
The Bank of England cuts it base rate
Steve Keen on money
Polanski, Meadway and a bit of Murphy
Do we need Keir Starmer, or do we need doctors? That is the question
Tax is not theft
People matter
Top-down and bottom-up thinking
The importance of enlightenment
Neuro-nontypicality: the background to this morning’s post
The FT’s analysis of autism and ADHD prevalence is deeply worrying
Economics is not about money
Is the UK about to investigate Trump’s interference in UK politics?
Doctors, strikes and the failures of Wes Streeting and Labour
Glossary entries: tax and the reasons to tax
Economic questions: the William Nordhaus question
When will Labour tell Trump where to go?
Beware the end of December
Inequality is a political choice
Why, Labour? Why?
Why economic policy matters for the Greens
What will happen if economic growth has come to an end?
Another dud Nobel prize?
The second Christmas book – our MMT guide
Dull brown content
The changing political landscpe
The Best of the Blog 2025: the Introduction
Big company chief executives don’t create value – they extract it
We really are living in dangerous times
Starmer is the NHS’s problem
Economic questions: the William Beveridge question
The Best of the Blog 2025
Is Trump at war with Europe?
The end of growth
What is a theory?
My best of the year, in the National
Inequality is a political choice – and the UK keeps choosing it
If every country is in debt, where’s the money?
Why do we need a politics of care?
Breakfast, coffee and some paracetamol
How to prepare for a crash
Just work out what you want to do
Economic questions: the James Tobin question
New glossary entry: Spahn taxation
Trump’s war on Europe is all about racism
Making capital controls work
Where does the money lost in a crash go?
Nine people need to go to the Bank of England
Fallacy of composition
Paradox of thrift
The ship is sinking
This is not a way to run an economy
Where’s the plan?
Scotland should take control of its banks
People want democratic control of the City and money
Optimisim is in short supply
Giving in
Why don’t people engage with politics?
Hate, or peace?
Why are people are frightened?
Planning for a crash
Tax in modern monetary theory
What should have been done to prevent a crash?
12 questions about modern money
Light
Where are we?
The difference modern monetary theory makes to managing the modern money economy
Who is to blame for the crash to come?
The Bank of England is warning a financial crash is coming
Fighting Farage
The National: speaking truth to power
Cracking omlettes
Markets look very vulnerable right now
Is spend and tax just the same as tax and spend?
Why is the government sacking doctors?
Wes Streeting’s exercise in thought control
Cambridge, 28 February 2026
Economic questions: the Thomas Hobbes Question
What coalitions might work?
The Survival of the Shameless
Is it time to abolish the OBR?
We need deep thinking on delivery, and only get slogans
On Politics Joe
Why left vs right politics is over in the UK
Money’s too tight to mention
Coming publications
Descartes was wrong: economics is not a class war machine – it is a system of relationships
The Funding the Future event: 28 February 2026
Grace Blakeley: the next round
Is there something rotten in the state of the Treasury?
Why is the left so frightened of MMT?
Is my work aimed at preserving capitalism?
Why won’t so much of the left believe in the sovereign power to make money?
Is the new politics about to be born?
Rachel Reeves: time to go
Why the UK budget system is broken — and how to fix it
What do the Marxist opponents of MMT want?
MMT matters because it reveals power – and gives us back the right to choose
The best ever month
Questions to ask a left-wing critic of MMT
Why Grace Blakeley is wrong about MMT — and why that matters for the left
Why do we still have poverty?
MMT and the quantity theory of money
MMT and trade: looking beyond the money
Interlude
Reeves’ budget: built on fear?
Is MMT as dangerous as its opponents claim?
Feedback request on our PDF downloads
Rachel Reeves is a truly reactionary Chancellor
The Scottish spin
The UK is cursed: how finance destroyed our economy
Yesterday on Radio 2
The Treasury’s deeply misleading data on the impact of the Budget
The hypocrisy of bankers needs to come to an end
Phew: what a day
The Budget: No growth. No hope?
Why Rachel Reeves just failed the British public
The Budget: live commentary
The Budet in nutshell before Reeves has spoken
Today’s agenda
Modern Monetary Theory, mythology and a glossary update
Labour no longer answers any question this country has
The Alternative Budget 2025: The download version
The alternative budget we need: the video
The Alternative Budget 2025, Part 11: Conclusions
Labour’s sinking ship
The left is always playing on the opposition’s turf. No wonder it’s not winning.
Why is so much of the left economically incompetent?
Polanski is spooking his opponents
Economic questions: the Eugene Fama question
The Alternative Budget 2025, Part 10: tax reforms
Is Britain at the peak of a great financial wave?
Economic questions: the John Christensen question
We need capital controls
Hot money
The Alternative Budget 2025, Part 9: Essential economic reforms
The ultra-processed food crisis
Privilege and power
Britain’s oil, gas and finance curses
Socialism and anti-socialism
The Alternative Budget 2025, Part 8: Abolishing national insurance
A black swan moment
Why the government is nothing like a household
Does the US Congress know what socialism is?
Economic questions: the Thomas Paine question
Re-moralising economic life is not an optional extra
Extortion from the gullible and innocent
The Alternative Budget 2025, Part 7: The politics of care
Why did Britain stop making?
AI and the Budget
Covid: the Tories deserve all the criticism they’re getting
The Top 250 Blogpost List
Alternatives to neliberalism
The Alternative Budget 2025, Part 6: Addressing issues in housing
Rachel Reeves is unravelling
Ultra-processed food is not a dietary choice. It is a political economy problem.
Building economic narratives, one step at a time
Economic questions: the Stephanie Kelton question
The Alternative Budget 2025, Part 5: Reforming the UK’s Savings System
Is the political order collapsing?
My sincere apologies
Economic questions: (one of) the Steve Keen question(s)
The Alternative Budget 2025, Part 4: Renationalisation
Is the crash happening?
The crypto party’s over
Reform piles high the politics of hate
Hate fuelled politics
Does taxing the wealthy control inflation?
The Alternative Budget 2025, Part 3: Creating a new fiscal framework
Profit, purpose and society
How far can these callous idiots fall?
Not long ago Labour thought it could win in Scotland
Can you imagine?
Economic questions: the Adam Smith question
The Alternative Budget 2025, Part 2: Understanding tax and ‘borrowing’
Why do professionals hate change?
Economic questions: the Jesus of Nazareth question
The Alternative Budget 2025 – The Background
AI: How to use it as a campaigner
“We can afford whatever we can do”
The economic questions: the Amartya Sen question
Why Rachel Reeves is making a mess of things
Kings, knights and modern monetary theory
300,000
Economic questions: The David Graeber question
Young people are alienated by neoliberalism
The lull before the storm
The PDF Shop
Why Reeves’ November budget is already broken
Taking ideas for a walk
Growth has disappeared
How can Rachel Reeves deliver a Budget when the government is collapsing?
What does growth mean?
Is the BBC suffering a far-right attack?
It’s the way you tell them that counts
Tea, marshes and opinions
Is this what the endgame of neoliberal politics might look like?
Does the coup at the BBC matter?
We can’t afford the wealthy
The higher the FTSE rises, the further it will fall
I must go down to the sea again….
Democracy is being undermined, deliberately
Be careful what you ask for when it comes to the BBC
Did the 1970s really kill Keynes?
The media really does need to be objective about Trump and the BBC
Wny carry on tackling climate change?
Economic questions: The Nancy MacLean question
Birding
Unless the Tories and Labour agree on electotal reform they’re over
The crisis in the news
Energy privatisation is bust
The US right wing is devouring itself
New glossary entry: the Full Funding Rule
Economic question: the Tony Judt question
Laffer’s curve: the tax myth that promoted inequality
Roosting
Limiting horizons to expand them
Money, and the stories that are told to engineer control and privilege
Ne’er a truer word
The unaffordability of Trump
A reminder
Who is killing the coffee trade?
The oppression goes on
Where is Britain’s black hole?
MMT v fascism
Economic questions: the Paul Krugman question
Tax, Budgets and Scotland
Would you attend a Funding the Future event?
Nationalism: good or bad?
The economic fundamentals of a Scottish currency
On racism
The tipping point?
Mamdani’s win will sweep away the deadwood of the supposed neoliberal left-wing
Why is it that the rich always seem to win?
Rachel Reeves is panicking
Reeves’ rabbit in the headlights moment
Reflections
Reeves, and the folly of increasing basic income tax rates
The Union must change
If you didn’t know who you’d be, would you design this society?
Who owns companies, and why?
How can the economy survive when most wages are too low?
Economics questions: The Greg Mankiw question
Can the UK survive?
Pricing
Economic myths: Supply and Demand Curves
The white collar world is falling apart
Was Guy Fawkes as bad as history makes out?
There’s a £1 trillion crash waiting to happen
While the world watches the circus, the country is falling apart
Economic questions: the Gary Becker question
Economic myths: Diminishing Returns and Marginalism
Is royalty over?
Economic myths: perfect competition
The significance of Mr Mountbatten-Windsor
The growth delusion
In progress
The state of right wing thinking on the economy
The market is not the solution to our housing problems
Where does the money go when the government spends — and when it taxes?
Is Apple worth $4 trillion?
What Rachel Reeves is signalling in advance of her budget
Why are people who are capable of massive misjudgement allowed to run public companies?
Growth is not coming back — and nor should our democracy depend upon it
Economic myths: perfect information
A narrative for a Scottish currency
Larry Elliott on fiscal failure, technological anxiety and cautious optimism
Why would anyone want to be fleeced by Farage?
When will Labour admit we need PR?
Tax, redistribution, the relationship between the two, and why it matters
Racism is now being called out: calling out fascism must be next
Economic questions: the Thomas Piketty question
It’s time to end elite entitlement
AI won’t save us
The demands for independence are growing by the day
Why taxing idle wealth is the only tax rise Britain needs
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