The welcome news from the USA overnight was that it had turned its back on Donald Trump. Closer to home, there is further welcome news,
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Can the Democrats redirect AI?
As the FT has reported this morning; Global stocks fell on Wednesday as investors bet that a wave of Democratic victories in the US midterm
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The USA has rejected Trump: next it has to reject corporate power
The USA has rejected Trump. The midterm election results are staggeringly good for the Democrats, and terrible for the Republicans. As I write this, The
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Is neoliberalism reaching its tipping point?
Are we at a tipping point? Could the growing wave of protests around the world signal the beginning of the end of neoliberalism and the
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What did happen yesterday?
I read all the news reports this morning, as I also did last night, and felt that there was nothing I had to say about
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Why the UK does not have a welfare crisis
Britain is supposedly facing a welfare spending crisis. Politicians, newspapers and television commentators are demanding cuts to benefits because they claim that the country can
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The art of taking time off
I said I would take the weekend off. As it turned out, I didn’t quite succeed. That said, I did in one way. I told
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Abdul El-Sayed creates possibility – and the Establishment is frightened of that
As The Guardian noted in an article posted overnight: Congresswoman Haley Stevens, who lost the Michigan Democratic Senate primary to Abdul El-Sayed, endorsed his Republican
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Royal reparations
I have noted the suggestions made by the Prime Minister and John Healey this weekend that the UK might apologise for its role in slavery,
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