I published a post here yesterday that has attracted a lot of comments, not all of which I have been able to deal with as
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It’s not too late to beat Reform – but it will be if Labour does not act now
What is there to say about the announcement made yesterday that Reform has been given two donations of £36 million, or of £72 million in
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Trump got somthing right: Ireland does need to be united
Some things were not on my bingo card for yesterday. One was that I would agree with Donald Trump. During his visit to Ireland, he
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Why is AI so frightened all of a sudden?
As the New York Times reported last night: The chief executive of Anthropic, the company behind the Claude chatbot, called for a global slowdown of
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The Culture of Contentment
John Kenneth Galbraith was one of the great economists of the twentieth century. In The Culture of Contentment, published in 1992, he offered a warning about
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When GDP growth might kill
As The Guardian has noted this week: Artificial intelligence could kill off humanity within the decade, according to three researchers with the industry giant Anthropic, one of
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Home time
A very productive week has ended. Thomas was on holiday. So was I. We were in Blakeney in Norfolk. And yes, I wrote for at
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What if labour was not a cost?
I have been thinking about something that is so obvious within conventional accounting that almost no one thinks to question it. It is the assumption
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Understanding economics: What is inequality?
Inequality is about much more than the difference between what one person earns and another. It is about income, wealth, opportunity, security and, ultimately, power.
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