As Christmas approaches, I reflect on my word of the year: pleonexia — an ancient Greek term describing the insatiable desire to take more than your fair share, even when it harms others. In 2025, we saw that everywhere. youtu.be/V_5MAVyR1JY?...

The push for wealth taxes has been one of the defining economic debates of 2025. The question now is how to create policies that work. If we are serious about justice, democracy and effective government, this is the path we should take. youtu.be/iSE8GsNZgBU?...

Christmas is economically strange. We stop working. Spending surges. Profit stops mattering. Time off is normalised. Family and care come first. And we accept all of this without question. The real tragedy is not Christmas excess. It is forgetting the lesson in January. youtu.be/pgFUNnP0Tj4?...

Is the NHS really in crisis because of money — or because we are asking the wrong question altogether? In this video, I ask the question no politician wants to answer: who benefits from a system that manages illness rather than reduces it? youtu.be/klPS9VzTglY?...

Is tax theft? Many people think so. In this video, I explain why the popular claim “it’s my money, why should the government take it?” is based on a fundamental mistake. If you care about public services, this is the conversation we need to have. youtu.be/SK-PmfkViDE?...

The FT’s analysis of autism and ADHD prevalence is deeply worrying www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/12...

Most people think that economics is about money, that government spending is constrained by tax, and that public services must always come second to “balancing the books”. All of that is wrong. youtu.be/ZL8SMeV2VyY?...

When will Labour tell Trump where to go? www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/12...

Inequality is not an accident. It is not natural. And it is not inevitable. According to the United Nations’ World Inequality Report, inequality results from deliberate political and institutional choices. The question is, why do our politicians perpetuate it? youtu.be/yW3EhTUG4lw?...

Richard Murphy: Trump’s right that Europe has problems – but wrong about the cause www.thenational.scot/politics/256...

Why economic policy matters for the Greens www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/12...

For 50 years, Western politics has rested on a single promise: growth. But what if that promise can no longer be kept? In this video, I ask a question almost no politician dares to face: what happens to democracy when growth flatlines permanently? youtu.be/c8UJ0AsqOfo?...

Chief executives are now paid hundreds of times more than the people who actually create value in their companies. This is not innovation or entrepreneurship – it is extraction. In this video, I explain how fair pay ratios could be enforced through the tax system. youtu.be/X5jvx5ytcuE?...

Available now - our free-to-download 'Best of the Blog 2025' book. www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/downloa...

Has Donald Trump effectively declared war on Europe? In this video, I explore how Trump’s racist rhetoric and his attacks on migrants are being used to divide Europe. This is the defining political choice of our time. Which Europe do you want to live in? youtu.be/S0WlcM8swhY?...

If every country is in debt, where's the money? youtu.be/Ki8QUa3oVF0?...

What can ordinary people do if the financial crash many economists fear is coming? In this video, I explain some practical, calm, and sensible steps to improve your financial resilience. These tips should help you think ahead when the government won’t. youtu.be/4Hp4mZ8DDNA?...

Six months on, this video is as relevant as when we first made it, except a crash is probably nearer now. Every time stock markets drop, headlines say that billions have been lost. But where does that money actually go? If you want to understand crashes, this one’s for you youtu.be/QZntEyjROcg?...

Too many campaigners talk about what’s wrong, but never explain what must change or how it could happen. Real campaigning means finding solutions: identifying causes, proposing reforms, and then doing the maths on the finances to show how they would work in practice. youtu.be/uF40KyuRp8Q?...

Richard Murphy: Scotland’s banks, not its currency, hold the key to real independence www.thenational.scot/politics/256...

People feel politics has nothing to do with them — and they’re right to feel ignored. In this video, I explain why our democracy is failing, why so many feel powerless, and how we can put people back in charge. youtu.be/pql220L0kqc?...

Modern Monetary Theory describes how money works in the real economy. In this video, I share 12 essential questions to challenge politicians when they deny economic reality — and ensure the power of money is used for people, not for the wealthy few. youtu.be/S3RGCq5KnTU?...

The Bank of England has issued a stark new Financial Stability Report — and beneath the cautious language lies a clear message: the global risk environment has deteriorated sharply. A systemic crisis now looks more like “when” than “if”. youtu.be/NMDdkEZhNbI?...

There are thousands of trained doctors in the UK right now — unemployed. Not because they’re unnecessary, but because the government refuses to fund the NHS roles we desperately need. If we have the doctors, we can fund the doctors. So why won’t they? youtu.be/jN42hYQsehU?...

Wes Streeting claims there are too many diagnoses of anxiety, autism, and ADHD. But when people are oppressed by neoliberalism, and others cannot comply with its demand for uniformity, he is really seeking to destroy evidence of dissent for his toxic worldview. www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/12...

Is the Office for Budget Responsibility really protecting the UK economy, or enforcing austerity? I argue that the OBR was designed to remove democratic control over fiscal policy. In that case, it's time to get rid of it. youtu.be/lu6i9BB0XpU?...

British politics is broken. The old left vs right divide no longer explains what is happening. Instead, we face a new choice: care or neglect. youtu.be/7UtmjV6LNWA?...

Why is the left still terrified of the state’s power to create money? youtu.be/7O_3wR87yvo?...

Why won’t so much of the left believe in the sovereign power to make money? www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/12...

Rachel Reeves has given us a masterclass in how NOT to run a budget. We got leaks, U-turns, political theatre, but almost no real economic planning. In this video, I explain what’s gone wrong and how we could get a rational budget. We deserve better than this. youtu.be/Knt4hMH1IMY?...

Questions to ask a lcritic of MMT www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/11...

MMT matters because it reveals power – and gives us back the right to choose www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/11...

Why does poverty still exist in one of the richest countries on earth? In this video, I explain how antisocial neoliberal economics deliberately creates poverty. youtu.be/GfihKzPmRIg?...

Rachel Reeves' Budget was a damp squib, delivering austerity by stealth. There was no vision, and no investment. There was just fear of the City of London. In this video, I ask why the Chancellor has surrendered economic power to finance. youtu.be/6pTpT_uB_4M?...

The UK is cursed: how finance destroyed our economy youtu.be/WUy_Hl-sD6Q?...

Rachel Reeves says her budget delivers stability. The Office for Budget Responsibility's charts tell a very different story. High interest rates, low investment, falling profitability, rising unemployment and no improvement in household incomes. youtu.be/oAN7e3-yryE?...

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?...

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

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?...

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

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

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?...

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.

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...

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?...

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.

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?...

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...

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?...