Society

While the years 1953 to 1973 had seen both rich and poor enjoy rising prosperity, after 1973 only the rich could prosper.

Cutting National Insurance turns us from contributing citizens into mere neo-feudal peasants who live or die at our overlords’ whim.

The UK in particular – and Europe more generally – is already well into the post-peak oil collapse predicted decades ago.

What the neoliberals – and the ownership class they acted for – never understood was that the checks on profiteering were in their own long-term interests.

The last thing Rishi Sunak wants anyone to draw attention to is that he was Chancellor when all of that funny money was created.

These expressions are no more than the hope that clever people somewhere else will figure out what to do… something that bitter experience surely says will not happen.

Once an imperial currency system has matured, it is easy to believe that “who controls money can control the world." But the system only works so long as industrial power continues to grow.

At the beginning of the century, the average 25-year-old was part of a couple raising children in their own home. In 2024, the average 25-year-old is living in their parent’s spare room.

You can’t have an energy transition without the steel to supply the wind turbine factories.

It is though, one thing to win elections. It is something quite different to successfully govern a country… even at the best of times.