Roy Lilley asked this question this morning in his daily email, which usually focuses on NHS issues: “Instead of asking, ‘How do we stop protests?’
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Crypto’s murky core — and why the bubble must burst
Jemima Kelly in FT Alphaville captured the essence of the crypto world in a few sentences in an article published yesterday. She said: Crypto itself
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What would Keynes, Galbraith and Beveridge say now?
As John Maynard Keynes once said: The difficulty lies, not in the new ideas, but in escaping from the old ones, which ramify, for those
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Progress towards a police state
As the FT notes this morning: Donald Trump has threatened to invoke the Insurrection Act of 1807 to deploy troops to American cities, intensifying a
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What happens when £47 billion disappears from Britain’s economy?
Tory Shadow Chancellor Mel Stride wants to take £47 billion out of the UK economy — mostly by cutting benefits for migrants and those with
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Tory plans to cut aid are racism in action
Tory Shadow Chancellor, Mel Stride, wants to slash the UK’s overseas aid to 0.1% of national income. That’s not just cruel, it’s racism and fascism
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The neoliberal centre cannot hold
The line “The centre cannot hold” from Irish poet W.B. Yeats feels as if it were written for Emmanuel Macron’s France. In the space of
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Are the Tories’ policies racist?
Having already asked this morning whether Reform’s policies are racist and having noted that most people in the UK think that they are, it seems
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How long is it before promoting Scottish, Welsh and Irish independence is deemed to be a terrorist action?
As I note in my column in The National this morning (and I have edited the opening, very slightly), in the light of recent moves
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