In this podcast, I talk with John Christensen, co-founder of the Tax Justice Network, about whether Britain can escape the final stage of a decades-long inflationary cycle without social and political rupture. youtu.be/5-DutvOB3QU?...

Why is so much of the left economically incompetent? www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/11...

Israel passed 30 laws 'deepening apartheid’ since 7 October, legal centre says - https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/israel-passed-30-laws-deepening-apartheid-7-october-adalah-says

Rachel Reeves’ 2025 Budget has already collapsed under the weight of its own contradictions. In this video, I explain why tax rises on ordinary people, baseless growth forecasts, and a refusal to tax wealth fairly mean this Budget will fail. youtu.be/xvdFsOT6WPk?...

Gaza: Heavy rain floods camps as UN warns of ‘bleak’ situation - https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/gaza-heavy-rain-floods-camps-un-warns-bleak-situation

There are three things Rachel Reeves should bear in mind tomorrow: obscene wealth doesn't 'trickle down', tax cuts don't 'pay for themselves' and the private sector isn't 'more efficient'

Stunning work

The rigged system continues to fail millions. It's time for total economic transformation. Read our #Budget2026 preview here:

‘Of course Trump is an asset to Putin’ – US analyst Fiona Hill www.channel4.com/news/of-cour...

🚨WOW! The Petition calling for a public inquiry into Russian influence on UK politics & democracy has now rocketed past 47,000 signatures! Let’s get it to 50,000 tonight. If a petition is what it’s going to take let’s get this done! petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...

UK allowed arms exports to UAE after being told weapons given to RSF - https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/uk-allowed-arms-exports-uae-after-being-told-weapons-given-rsf

Rachel Reeves is presenting a budget built on assumptions that simply cannot survive the world we are about to enter. We're facing a financial crisis, and that is not in her plans. youtu.be/O_6AdrMLWbw?...

In the sixth part of my alternative budget, I tackle essential reforms in the mortgage market and social housing. When housing insecurity exists all around us, whilst prices are excessive on so many fronts, housing market and finance reforms are essential. www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/11...

For forty years, we were told that Britain didn’t need manufacturing — finance would make us rich. That experiment failed. We import more than we export, our towns are hollowed out, and our prosperity rests on hot money and property bubbles rather than what we make.. youtu.be/mOqUoJ-NirM?...

The Alternative Budget 2025, Part 7: The politics of care www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/11... Governments have not cared about people for far too long. In my draft alternative Budget, I would change that, for good. Politics is nothing if it is not about care.

Politicians constantly claim that the government must “live within its means”, just like any family. In this video, I explain why the household analogy is not only wrong — it is the foundation of austerity. youtu.be/Q03GKwMxmAo?...

A radical budget requires a radical tax reform, and getting rid of our regressive national insurance charges, which are an absurd tax on jobs when jobs are what we want to promote, makes sense in that case. www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/11...

Britain’s oil, gas and finance curses www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/11... Why is the UK failing? It's not because we are no good: it's because the government squandered oil and then bowed down to finance. We never had a hope once our governments put them first.

Ultra-processed foods now make up at least half of all food sold in UK supermarkets. The Lancet has described them as a “corporate-engineered public health crisis.” We can change this — but only if we confront corporate power. youtu.be/BJ8nEeiFmH4?...

The Alternative Budget 2025, Part 9: Essential economic reforms www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/11... My alternative budget is drawing towards its close.

Richard Murphy: What Scotland needs from the Budget (but won’t get) www.thenational.scot/politics/256...

“I voted for Labour but I will be voting for the Greens next time, I think Zack Polanski talks a lot of sense, I’m fed up with Labour, they are targeting the wrong people.” inews.co.uk/news/britain...

Millions of toxic plastic beads from Southern Water have washed up on Camber Sands beach, threatening dolphins, seals, seabirds, and our beaches. Sign the petition to make sure water companies pay for the cleanup of spills like this, not their customers: act.38degrees.org.uk/act/water-co...

Across the West, governments are failing. Trump, Starmer, Macron, Merz and others are losing authority at the very moment crises demand leadership. Far-right movements are fracturing. Neoliberalism has run out of ideas. youtu.be/8avLxqNs75s?...

Israeli air strikes pummel Gaza less than 48 hours after UN adopts Trump's plan - https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/israeli-air-strikes-pummel-gaza-less-48-hours-after-un-adopts-trumps

Nick Watt, "Zack Polanski is saying that what is more important is not wealth, it's about creating equality"

Gaza hospitals say Israel killed 34 Palestinians in overnight bombing - https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/gaza-hospitals-say-israel-killed-34-palestinians-overnight-bombing

The Alternative Budget 2025, Part 5: Reforming the UK’s Savings System www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/11... The money to transform the UK exists; it's just locked into a savings system that makes no use of it. That has to change.

Breaking: An Epstein survivor just silenced press conference attendees when she delivered the following remarks: “Today we stand in a moment that will decide whether our government belongs to the American people, or to those who prey on them.”

Israel's Knesset passes law to cut water and electricity to UN agency helping Palestinians - https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/israels-knesset-passes-law-cut-water-and-electricity-un-agency-helping

Why is it that the rich always seem to win? youtu.be/KKwCTaUQ5gM?... In this video, I unpack how political choices and not economic laws have made wealth compound and wages stagnate, and what we can do to reverse it.

Mamdani’s win will sweep away the deadwood of the supposed neoliberal left-wing www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/11...

The tipping point? www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/11... Japanese and South Korean stock markets fell heavily overnight. Is the crash starting?

How can the UK survive when most of its member states want to leave? youtu.be/CnLkIsKxEEw?...

How can the economy survive when most wages are too low? www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/11...

Richard Murphy: Could a crash as bad as 2008 hit us? The answer is yes www.thenational.scot/comment/2559...

If you didn’t know who you’d be, would you design this society? youtu.be/fPAMQer1K8I?... If not, why put up with it?

Reeves, and the folly of increasing basic income tax rates www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/11...

Why is Rachel Reeves panicking about the budget? youtu.be/XQUqR6YyF3A?...

One battle. All love

Leaving the ECHR won’t “Take Back Control” – it will hand your rights to politicians eastangliabylines.co.uk/politics/jus...

Iraq can only disarm militias once US troops leave the country, PM says - https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/iraq-will-be-able-disarm-militias-when-us-troops-leave-country-pm-says

Red Cross transfers Israeli captive’s body to army in Gaza - https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/red-cross-transfers-israeli-captives-body-army-gaza