Economy

Paul Hodgkinson asks why our central government is denying local councils the funds they need to...

Ben Watters warns that a resurgence of ‘Trussonomics’ spells disaster for British politics and the future...

Michelle Cook looks at the argument for Universal Basic Income and concludes it will give the...

Bob Copeland shows why our present method of funding is little better than a Ponzi scheme....

Challenging the worldview reflected in government orthodoxy which inevitably favours exploiting the natural world and human...

A reader challenges Steve Dawe’s assessment of HS2 and electrification in his recent article entitled ‘National...

In the first of a 3 part series, Bob Copeland questions some of the assumptions behind...

Bob Copeland reports from the conference Marxism 2023. Marxist thinkers, he reminds us, still have a...

Bob Copeland reviews a new book 'Crack-Up Capitalism: Market Radicals and the Dream of a World...

In Part Three of this interview, Borys agrees that he tolerated sleaze and corruption from his...

In Part Two of this spoof interview, Borys admits to serial lying in the Referendum campaign,...

Part One of another (spoof) interview, this time with former Prime Minister Borys Jvanovich. ‘Big Dog’...

Is it possible to evaluate Brexit meaningfully? Professor Syrpis has a good try, both theoretically and...

McGarvey gives a first-hand account of the social and economic costs of poverty in Britain today....

Rosalind pleads for a society which respects that everyone is different and ‘squiggly’, like the pieces...

Geneviève shares the views of her colleagues at a Bournemouth Foodbank distribution centre. Food banks are...

Hadrian asks if the ghost of Thatcherism is responsible for the death of our systems of...

Rosalind argues that GDP should measure not only the monetary value of goods and services but...

Jeremy, your budget does nothing to relieve the pressure on carers and their families. And you...

Hadrian welcomes the fact that the Ditchley Park ‘summit’ happened at all, but questions whether it...

In Part2 of her ‘Alternative Narrative’, Rosalind Wain argues that the National Debt should be viewed...

Was this secret summit the first tentative step towards reversing the unmitigated disaster that is Brexit?...

Stroud Green Party condemn the government’s decision not to provide ‘Levelling Up’ funding to Stroud and...

Rosalind Wain explains that there is an ‘Alternative Narrative’ to economics which is based on a...

Keir Starmer has told us that Labour can 'Make Brexit Work' and that the return of...

Is it possible for our leaders to think about valuing human beings and accepting that the...

Try not to do as much damage as the last three Prime Ministers have done, and...

Growing our care economy in the West of England, and the rest of the UK, could...

Bristol councillors talk about the need for national government to step in to help people stay...

Perhaps when Liz Truss said 'growth, growth, growth' in her conference speech, she misspoke. She had...