2025年2月1日 · People are falling out of love with democracy. In one recent poll, over half of 13-27 year-olds said they would prefer a "strong leader" to our curent democracy.A survey last year by Pew Research found only 31% of UK people saying that representative democracy is a very good system of government, a decline since 2017. And only 30% of voters now say it was right to leave the EU, suggesting that ...

2025年1月6日 · The government should stop billionaires making big donations to political parties; should move towards rejoining the EU; should fine polluting water companies more heavily; should make a positive case for immigration; and revive local economies and redistribute income more in order to fight off the far-right.. All these suggestions, taken from a quick browse of Bluesky, seem like good ...

2025年1月11日 · Immigration isn't purely a left/right issue any longer. Whilst immigration itself is neither intrinsically good nor bad, the questions are around historically unprecedented absolute volumes of migration into the UK, it's implications for social cohesion and integration, for net productivity, for housing and public services (both supplying and consuming those services) etc.

2024年5月29日 · "A vote for Labour is a vote for stability" said Sir Keir Starmer launching Labour's election campaign. This is more than just a soundbite. It opens the door for some sensible policies. There is a solid economic logic to this desire for stability.

2022年9月27日 · There's a paradox: Liz Truss's government contains many members who claim to be free marketeers, and yet the first policy of her premiership has been to freeze energy prices and subsidize energy suppliers.. This poses the question: what does it mean to be a free marketeer today?

2024年1月15日 · The post office scandal is not merely a matter of a few bad bosses. It should raise questions about the very structure of our society. It's easy to say that Paula Vennells was corrupt and/or incompetent and that the Horizon system was faulty.

2023年1月9日 · British capitalism - whether you call it neoliberalism, financialization, rentierism or whatever - has failed most people; even before the jump in gas prices real wages were barely higher than they had been 15 years previously.

2021年10月28日 · One of the great political changes of my adult lifetime has been the right’s abandonment of free market economics, as illustrated by the government imposing trade frictions within the UK and putting up the tax burden to what the OBR says will be “its highest level since Roy Jenkins was Chancellor in the late 1960s.” Two books I’ve read recently pose a question: might this shift be due ...

«previous indications that we would do nothing have led us to this point. Perhaps the risk of appeasement is the one we don't see?» That appeasement had resulted in hundreds of thousands of refugees and so many deaths during the vicious war of aggression by the Ukraine against the right to independence and peaceful life of the people of the Donbas:

2024年3月8日 · Politicians prefer lazy moralizing to intellectual enquiry. I say this because of Sunak's speech last week in which he condemned far-right extremists "who are hostile to our values and have no respect for our democratic traditions." What he did not do in that speech is ask: why has right-wing extremism increased from a nuisance to something more troubling?