Keir Starmer Resigns: Can Anyone Survive as Prime Minister in Today’s Britain?
Starmer post-mortems raise questions about what next for what passes for UK leadership.
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What Would Happen if the UK Tried to, or Did, Repay Its National Debt?
The leadership contest in the UK is set to produce yet more flogging of bad neoliberal tropes, so this post provides a needed counterpoint.
Read more...Fifty Two Questions for Andy Burnham
Former mayor of Manchester Andy Burnham is set to replace Keir Starmer as prime minister. Will he bring change or more of the same?
Read more...The Impoverishing Thinking of Central Bankers Who Want Interest Rate Rises
Central bankers look to make a bad problem worse by trying to ensure wages and prices stay down even as energy costs rise.
Read more...Satyajit Das: Book Essay: In Western Eyes – A History of the idea of the West
A treatise on what the idea of the West falls short on synthesis but still provides good grist for discussion.
Read more...Blair Invokes AI to Revive TINA, Denying TIARA
Swamp creature Tony Blair emerges to tell the suffering public that they should accept even more hardship because AI.
Read more...England Is Splitting Apart as Labour Collapses
Labour, as many anticipated, is suffering an epic wipeout per early UK elections results. What might come next?
Read more...The Finance Curse Is Killing Britain
A well-warranted harsh look at the high cost an overly-large and ever-more-extractive finance sector imposes on society as a whole.
Read more...‘Could I Be in Their Cabinet?’: Big Business Eyes Up Reform
How Nigel Farage’s ‘anti-establishment’ party began a love affair with lobbyists and industry leaders.
Read more...Do You Want to Work Less?
Richard Murphy look at the growing number of high-paid professionals in the UK are choosing to work fewer hours.
Read more...The EU’s New Policy Towards Russia’s Seized Assets Isn’t About Helping Ukraine
It’s hard to be cynical enough in looking at EU rationales and motives for strengthening their hold on Russia’s seized assets.
Read more...Doctors, Strikes and the Failures of Wes Streeting and Labour
It appears Wes Streeting has channeled his inner Trump and is trying to bully NHS doctors when he does not hold good cards.
Read more...With UK Politics in Flux, Corbyn’s Your Party May Surprise You Yet
Last weekend, two very different Your Party conferences took place: the one reported on in the press, and the real one
Read more...Brexit’s Slow‑Burn Hit to the UK Economy
A new analysis finds that Brexit imposed higher costs on the UK than forecasts at the time projected.
Read more...Why Do We Still Have Poverty?
Richard Murphy explains how antisocial neoliberal economics deliberately creates poverty — using fear and insecurity to keep wages low, rents high, and wealth flowing up to the richest.
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