Labour could take action against tax havens
Tuesday, July 16th, 2024I have published this video this morning. In it, I argue that Labour needs to take action now that it is in office to finally
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Labour could end much child poverty overnight. It won't because it favours the wealthy instead. And that is unforgivable.
Monday, July 15th, 2024Larry Elliott has an article in the Guardian today with this heading: As Larry says: The first real test of Labour’s hardline approach to public
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Growth is not going to work for Labour
Wednesday, July 10th, 2024[NB: this post started life as a video, but the edit went wrong, so it has become a blog post instead. That might explain the
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Labour threat to NHS
Monday, July 8th, 2024This speech, under the title noted above, was given by the late Frank Dobson MP, who preceded Keith Starmer as Labour MP for Holborn and
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What do you want from our videos?
Monday, July 8th, 2024I have published this video this morning. In it, I note that it’s now three months since we re-launched our video channels, just in time
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The new UK government needs to get its accounts in order
Saturday, July 6th, 2024This morning’s short video has now been published. In it, I argue that the UK government’s accounts for March 2023 have not been published as
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The last thing this Labour government needs to deliver is austerity
Friday, July 5th, 2024We have a new government that is dedicated to austerity on the basis of its claim that ‘there is no money left’. It seems like
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I could be wrong about this, but I doubt it
Friday, July 5th, 2024We have a Labour government. For the sake of the record, and of setting a benchmark for my expectations, this is what I expect to
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Private equity capitalists will be laughing themselves all the way to the bank tonight
Thursday, July 4th, 2024The FT includes an article this morning that suggests: Ownership of UK water companies has long been the preserve of specialist infrastructure investors attracted to
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