The FT has published an editorial attacking taxes on the wealthy, and saying we must keep those threatening to leave, come what may. They're horribly wrong. If pandering to tax abuse is the price of keeping the wealthy, we should show them the door.
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The FT needs to get its head around wealth, and the need to tax it
The Financial Times published an editorial yesterday which revealed more about the priorities of the economic establishment than it probably intend...
Trump’s tariffs are destroying hope
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Trump’s tariffs are destroying hope
As the FT noted last night: Lesotho’s trade minister has warned that the country’s textiles industry, a major exporter to brands such as Leviâ...
 Lesotho, which is a major manufacturing centre for US garment companies, is predicting a national disaster because of the 50% tariff Trump is planning to impose on it, and they're right to do so. If you're not worried, you should be, because the knock-on effects for us all are considerable.
The corporations aiding genocide
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The corporations aiding genocide
I never imagined I would read a report like this in my lifetime, and yet it is in The Guardian, is corroborated elsewhere, and it is about a plan p...
 The evidence now is that many major corporations will, apparently, do anything to make a profit, including actively assisting genocide.
We need a politics that meets needs
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We need a politics that meets needs
I recorded a podcast with Tony Groves and Martin McMahon from the Echo Chamber Podcast in Ireland yesterday, which I do every few weeks or so. This...
 What is it that any party actually needs to do to succeed with the real people in the electorate now? I both ask and answer the question.
Labour is making a mockery of the rule of law
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Labour is making a mockery of the rule of law
I have a fear about what Yvette Cooper did last week. I believe that what she did in promoting the Terrorism Act 2000 (Proscribed Organisations) (A...
Protest is how change happens – and that's why the powerful fear it
Wes Streeting’s limited vision
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Wes Streeting’s limited vision
Wes Streeting has written an article for The Guardian on his vision for the NHS, which will come out today. Cut out his self-defence and the pad...
 Wes Streeting's vision for the NHS appears to focus on new health centres because hospitals are really BAD, AI note-taking software, and a new app. Why does there always have to be a new app? And that's it. This is not a vision. And that means it will fail.
Starmer has to reshuffle. Rachel Reeves is obviously at her wits' end. But that's because the Treasury is too big, too unmanageable and needs to be split into three new ministries. Will he have the courage to do that?
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Starmer needs a reshuffle, but he also needs to split the Treasury in three
It has been very hard to avoid discussion of Rachel Reeves on social media today. Her very obviously distressed state during the course of Prime Mi...
Labour is cutting disability benefits to balance Rachel Reeves’ budget, while handing billions in tax breaks to the rich. In this video I explain why this is morally bankrupt, and why Labour’s 70 MPs who backed down have failed the poorest.
Sanctions worked on apartheid. Why not sanction Israel, then? The Co-op has banned Israeli goods. The UK government remains silent. This silence is complicity. Real leadership in the face of genocide would require that the UK sanction Israel.