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1Democracy is dying, and our hopes with it. And yes, I am angry about that338December 7 2024
2Why are our political leaders ignoring the genocide in Gaza?325May 7 2025
3How dare Keir Starmer tell my family that we have caused incalculable damage to the UK?305May 12 2025
4Do we have the right to question police violence?300May 3 2026
5Panorama: an exercise in economic misinformation295June 3 2025
6Why pick on Chris Packham?293August 12 2026
7There’s a reason why seven prime ministers have failed291June 23 2026
8It’s going to be torture as the path to Starmer’s inevitable demise is rolled out283February 8 2025
9Is Trump mad or bad?281January 24 2025
10Whether Labour likes it or not, we will move on280July 18 2025
11The bastards are out to exploit again279February 2 2025
12I don’t apologise for being so angry274March 19 2025
13To my angry and disgusted commentator: a reply273November 5 2023
14While the world watches the circus, the country is falling apart272November 1 2025
15Starmer v Haigh, the lessons learned267November 30 2024
16Giving praise to Burnham and Miliband when it is due266September 9 2026
17We have the right to use plain words to express plain sentiment in a plain way264July 17 2025
18Keir Starmer has never understood264April 26 2025
19Why Rachel Reeves is making a mess of things264November 15 2025
20We need more people like Hannah Spencer264February 24 2026
21Zack Polanski’s economic direction263March 18 2026
22There is class warfare going on in this country now, and it is Labour waging it on the people of the UK262October 15 2024
23If Labour will not stop Farage, then it – and the country – are consigned to history261February 9 2025
24Labour, sinking261September 14 2025
25Neoliberal abuse261August 4 2025
26How to manage the cost of government borrowing260May 12 2026
27This might be the tipping point259March 1 2026
28Normal service is not in operation259June 22 2026
29There are so many questions, and so few answers258April 16 2025
30474 people258August 10 2025
31It’s time that the left’s nitpickers got real256February 23 2025
32The triple lock punishment256September 26 2026
33This could be as bad as 1929, and maybe very much worse256May 16 2026
34What is hard left about caring?255July 5 2025
35Wes Streeting is a disgrace253April 8 2024
36Farmers protesting about inheritance tax have got their econonics and arguments wrong252November 18 2024
37Clive Lewis: the Labour MP who gets it252May 11 2026
38Starmer exposed250September 18 2024
39Pie theory250August 6 2025
40The axis of evil250March 12 2026
41It is time for people of courage to walk away from Labour250September 29 2026
42MMT v fascism249November 6 2025
43The politics of James Purnell249June 25 2026
44Ethnic cleansing247August 5 2025
45The Guardian is part of the problem247June 15 2025
46The contemptuous games that Labour plays247April 18 2025
47Unless Labour listens and learns we are in big trouble247August 4 2024
48The significance of the Epstein files247July 19 2025
49Capitalism, my arse246September 29 2025
50Of course people are angry: we have totally useless politicians whose sole aim is to destroy government services. Why wouldn’t people be angry?246February 26 2024
51My concerns about Gary Stevenson’s economics of wealth246August 7 2025
52Don’t trust Wes Streeting’s NHS consultation245October 21 2024
53Burnham v Starmer: it’s not hard to decide244September 28 2025
54Starmer has to be next244September 11 2025
55This is what terrorism looks like243August 31 2025
56Why is the government obsessed with benefit fraud?243February 21 2025
57Labour politics is now about rule by indifference that seeks to impose cruelty242April 22 2025
58The Tory view of British values241March 2 2024
59Tariffs, fascism, and the required response241March 28 2025
60The hypocrisy of bankers needs to come to an end240November 27 2025
61Gary Stevenson’s break240July 27 2026
62Farewell Sir Keir Starmer MP239September 1 2026
63Is Labour now the worst government of the last fifteen years?239January 23 2025
64We really are living in dangerous times238December 13 2025
65Reeves is still peddling the household analogy238January 18 2025
66Rachel Reeves’ nasty prejudice is coming into play238October 18 2025
67Is MMT as dangerous as its opponents claim?238November 28 2025
68Labour really are total bastards238May 23 2025
69First they came for the Quakers238March 29 2025
70There is no such thing as the nation’s credit card237October 1 2026
71To improve well-being we must abandon failed economic ideas237June 24 2026
72The power structures within society are all wrong – and no one is saying so237December 23 2024
73The politics of privilege are what the farmers’ protests are all about237November 20 2024
74Consider this236July 28 2025
75The moment of desperation is approaching very fast236October 10 2026
76It really is time to nationalise water235June 19 2025
77Ministerial bollocks234April 7 2025
78Time to end the House of Windsor234February 19 2026
79Ending the toxic politics that is breaking the UK, and the world beyond233December 20 2023
80The significance of Mr Mountbatten-Windsor233October 31 2025
81Why are we listening to Fiona Hill?233June 7 2025
82Giving a damn233February 24 2025
83Universities never realised they were harbouring the ideology that now seeks to kill them233July 7 2025
84The media must be held to account232May 24 2025
85Channel 4 should hang its head in shame: A review of ‘The Great ADHD myth?’231August 19 2026
86We will be better off without the Tories231August 21 2025
87Is Starmer spreading complete misinformation on defence?230June 3 2025
88Labour is playing to the fascists whilst hurting hundreds of thousands of people.230May 12 2025
89Labour: too indifferent to democracy to care about its future229December 22 2024
90I don’t share values with Trump’s USA, and never will229February 15 2025
91A profoundly hostile world, where the odds are stacked in favour of a desperate few229June 13 2025
92Finding a better song to sing228October 25 2024
93Labour can’t recover from this228August 2 2025
94The role of social media in economic reform228July 28 2025
95If Braverman wants to brand me as an extremist, I plead guilty227November 5 2023
96The economy is going to get really bad. We need a plan. And John Healey is Chancellor.227September 19 2026
97Special relationship? I don’t think so226April 30 2025
98PFI is back – and it will be at cost to us all226September 9 2025
99This is the time for some seriously grown up politics226March 2 2025
100Rarely have we ever marched into the unknown so ill-equipped to manage the consequences225March 6 2026
101Please don’t abuse225July 23 2025
102An update224June 24 2026
103Democracy is almost over in the States224May 22 2025
104Rachel Reeves is planning on repeating all the mistakes Gordon Brown made224August 13 2024
105All Rachel Reeves has to do now is wait for the crash224November 17 2024
106Five quick reforms the NHS urgently needs224December 11 2024
107What is the UK really going to be short of?223May 7 2025
108The sociocide of the wealthy223August 16 2025
109If billionaires want to use tax as a weapon, let them go223September 25 2026
110The FT needs to get its head around wealth, and the need to tax it223July 13 2025
111There is no economic crisis in the UK. So why is Rachel Reeves making people suffer?223September 2 2024
112When truth departs – as it is doing from the political field – we are in very deep trouble223July 11 2025
113My unease with flags223August 21 2025
114Due notice to the trolls223August 26 2026
115Starmer’s new climate policy is unforgivable222October 4 2024
116It really is time to go for PR222May 11 2026
117Christianity, Starmer and the far-right221April 20 2025
118The water company crisis just got worse, thanks to Labour221May 16 2025
119The biggest challenge to Labour is Starmer221May 30 2025
120Labour is making a mockery of the rule of law221July 6 2025
121Has a more stupid man, so unable to read the runes, ever occupied No. 10?221April 13 2025
122Apple against the grain221February 26 2025
123Oh shit221February 13 2025
124Streeting: rotten to the core220February 18 2025
125Does the US Congress know what socialism is?220November 22 2025
126The UK benefits system is broken219March 16 2025
127Labour is becoming the enemy of the vulnerable219March 11 2025
128Rod Stewart: extremely wealthy and deeply out of touch218June 29 2025
129The failure of British politics218February 4 2025
130Martin Wolf: a threat to democracy in FT clothing218September 14 2026
131The UK will not be going to the IMF for a bailout218June 9 2026
132The FT view: make the vulnerable pay for failing neoliberalism217September 2 2026
133Trump comes for the scientists217January 25 2025
134Someone, somewhere, has it in for Rachel Reeves216February 13 2025
135This is what fascism looks like216June 6 2026
136The ethics of the Starmer’s clothing216September 15 2024
137The power elite has drawn up the drawbridge216September 18 2025
138Trump is unleashing terror216January 23 2025
139Democracy does not matter to Labour216January 2 2025
140Wes Streeting’s exercise in thought control216December 4 2025
141I have to live with this215May 2 2025
142What sort of insanity is this?215April 24 2025
143Tackling the nonsense talked about the national debt, and its cost215December 31 2023
144Keeping things in proportion215March 22 2025
145Overcoming fear215August 26 2023
146Storms and teacups215August 6 2025
147Labour really are bastards, and are intent on proving it215May 25 2025
148One paper got today’s visit by the President of Israel right214September 10 2025
149UK politician’s credit card con-trick on the people of this country214February 10 2024
150The world is in need of courageous people214July 10 2025
151If Keir Starmer understood this one blog post he could transform the UK214June 3 2025
152Keir Starmer does not know what he believes – but has achieved his goal214February 9 2026
153I must be winning214August 29 2026
154It’s complicated, and that’s the problem no one wants to face214June 4 2025
155Might Trump fail soon?213April 27 2025
156Of Corbyn and Sultana, and the future of democracy213July 25 2025
157Will Labour rise to the challenge from Musk?213December 2 2024
158Growth is not coming back213October 29 2025
159Is it ignorance or greed that is driving debate on social security?213October 30 2026
160Wes Streeting’s NHS redundancies make no sense213April 8 2025
161Is Keir Starmer a worse Prime Minister than Liz Truss?213January 25 2025
162We are living in a fucked up world213April 17 2025
163The white collar world is falling apart212November 2 2025
164Starmer’s finally found what he’s good at212October 26 2025
165Why the rich aren’t leaving, or coming, to the UK211September 8 2024
166Hints of dissent211February 1 2025
167The late Jason Arday210August 15 2026
168Blogged out210October 5 2024
169Reform wants to destroy government and the economy as we know it210January 13 2025
170The great energy rip-off210April 21 2025
171A six does it210May 2 2025
172Christmas blogging210December 22 2023
173Farage is out to screw them209June 26 2026
174Badenoch and Starmer: fascist enablers209May 15 2025
175The money Rachel Reeves needs is readily available. All that is lacking is the understanding on how to use it209June 1 2025
176 Why is Labour picking on pensioners?209September 10 2024
177Gary Stevenson is right: we need tax expertise to tackle wealth209September 1 2025
178The depravity of Rachel Reeves’ Mais lecture209March 19 2024
179Reeves is way out of her depth209March 23 2025
180Starmer is the NHS’s problem209December 13 2025
181Once might just be a mistake. Twice proves it isn’t.209February 22 2025
182Trump’s been snookered by China208April 14 2025
183Channel 4: The analysis208October 25 2026
184One of the greatest of Labour’s sins208August 3 2025
185There is always more than one way of seeing things208August 29 2025
186The national debt has just fallen by £1.5 trillion207November 27 2024
187Emeritus Professor207December 12 2024
188Trump is serious: he wants Greenland207January 26 2025
189Labour’s plan for Britain is austerity piled high207December 3 2023
190MMT in the Guardian207March 19 2026
191Labour is revolting207September 8 2024
192Keir Starmer comes across as untruthful, a procrastinator and a man without a shred of principle. But at least we now know that.207June 1 2024
193People are suffering because our politicians, economists and media are failing us206December 28 2024
194Poor, petrified, non-doms are terrified that they might have to pay some tax206April 13 2024
195We need deep thinking on delivery, and only get slogans206December 3 2025
196Musk has discovered modern monetary theory206March 18 2025
197Trump’s march towards full-on fascism is proceeding at pace206February 26 2025
198This will end in tears205December 28 2024
199Why won’t Labour tax wealth?205March 30 2025
200Panic in New York205June 26 2025
201What is possible now?205May 10 2026
202What would a courageous government do?205August 26 2026
203MMT and rules of government borrowing205September 3 2025
204Intelligence services205August 9 2025
205Who is taking money from private medcine?204March 30 2025
206A note to the trolls204April 22 2025
207Are Labour ministers guilty of joint enterprise crimes on Gaza?204May 21 2025
208Rachel Reeves is wrong about debt interest204September 29 2025
209Why doesn’t the news media talk about the real issues in life?204January 2 2025
210If growth is out of road, what are the reasons to be cheerful?204January 19 2025
211The RNLI: people of courage and commitment to their neighbours, whoever they might be204September 18 2026
212Farage wants to tear us apart204February 23 2026
213Starmer: a man way out of his depth when dealing with the NHS204September 13 2024
214Why sell UK assets abroad when the government should be buying them instead?204February 26 2026
215Palantir is not just a tech company204August 23 2025
216Why do we want a deal with the thugs running the USA?204April 24 2025
217The coming private debt crisis will be Rachel Reeves’ fault203February 3 2025
218Why is Labour talking total economic nonsense to justify its desperate desire to keep children in poverty?203May 27 2025
219Labour’s closing down sale203May 9 2026
220The economic choice facing us is who matters? The people of this country, or the wealthy and the City?203October 10 2024
221We are at a moment in history where the truth has to be stated203May 5 2025
222Thames Water is bust: our politicians need to deal with it203April 7 2024
223Kendall’s performative callousness203March 19 2025
224Rachel Reeves’ new wheeze: punishing those who live in social housing with above inflation rent rises203August 21 2024
225It’s time Labour saved the children203April 11 2025
226Starmer has been defeated and has not a shred of credibility left202July 1 2025
227Starmer’s actions on Palestine were unforgivable202July 30 2025
228When the world changes, so should the Chancellor202February 16 2025
229Wealth tax, or increased taxes on the income and gains from wealth?202March 19 2025
230The government of Israel has to go: peace requires it202June 14 2025
231Labour: past its sell-by-date201May 14 2026
232The alternative economists, coming to a stage sometime soon?201September 12 2024
233Can Rayner survive?201September 4 2025
234Reeves can take on nature and alienate millions by doing so201January 29 2025
235Is it all Rachel Reeves’ fault?201December 17 2024
236Starmer’s J-turn201May 22 2025
237The Bank of England is continuing to engineer a recession – and Rachel Reeves is letting it do so201September 20 2024
238Labour’s cry babies200September 11 2024
239It’s time to change UK energy pricing200February 25 2025
240Trump’s tariffs aren’t meant to make economic sense200April 5 2025
241Why are we still handing massive unearned bungs to UK commercial banks?200April 16 2026
242Rachel Reeves is going for broke200July 29 2024
243Rarely have people so stupid done so much harm200May 12 2025
244Europe’s energy pricing system could have devastating political consequences200September 4 2026
245Game over: this war was unjustified200March 17 2026
246The illness of Charles III200February 6 2024
247The failure of Musk is not by chance199May 31 2025
248In the face of genocide our basic human rights must be retained, and not be eroded199July 2 2025
249How far has Labour fallen?199April 22 2026
250Nine people need to go at the Bank of England199December 9 2025
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