The student loans crisis is a sign of the economic times. A rift is emerging between what people expected their lives to look like, and the reality of life in a stagnating economy. Will they blame themselves, or the system that's failed them? graceblakeley.substack.com/p/the-squeez...

Palantir, a US spy-tech firm, has been given access to millions of NHS patient records. Its founder has said the NHS should be 'ripped up'. Join me in calling on the government to end the dangerous Palantir contract. you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/st...

Around 6.6 million people – roughly 10% of UK adults – use credit cards to pay everyday bills like groceries and utilities, which is a sign of strain but far below 50%. StepChange shows around 24% of UK adults used some form of credit for essentials recently, including overdrafts and other credit.

Another episode The Roundup, is now available on Substack and Patreon! This week's episode looks at the fall of Starmerism; the UK's poverty crisis; and the point of no return for the earth's climate. Substack: substack.com/home/post/p-... Patreon: www.patreon.com/posts/roundu...

More than half of borrowers now use credit cards just to pay for essentials. With credit card interest rates around 20%, debt becomes a mechanism of redistribution: money flows from workers to banks simply so households can afford food, rent and utilities. open.substack.com/pub/gracebla...

Our next issue, ‘Dream of a Red Planet’, is out this month! Read @graceblakeley.substack.com, ‪@alexniven.bsky.social‬, and Marcus Barnett on the right-wing forces reshaping global politics — and how the Left fights back. Get a year of print for just £15: tribunemag.co.uk/subscribe?co...

A £240m defence contract without tender. Their fingerprints all over our health care data. A meeting in the USA but without any minutes. Everything around Palantir stinks. www.thenational.scot/news/2584192...

Keir Starmer and the Purge That Devoured Its Architects The same shameless tactics that Starmer used to purge the UK's left are now destroying his project from within, @graceblakeley.substack.com writes. Read: zeteo.com/p/keir-starm...

Once the enemy [the Left] had been defeated, his coalition lost its unifying purpose... Starmer’s team began using their well-worn anti-left tactics against each other – each believing that *they* would never be the victim. - @graceblakeley.substack.com

Starmerism wasn't about winning elections It was about destroying the Labour left-with it, any hope of a socialist govt running one of the world’s largest economies But tactics required for the success of such a project- stealth, deception, ruthlessness-are now helping to bring about its collapse

“The same shameless tactics that Keir Starmer used to purge the UK's left are now destroying his project from within.” @graceblakeley.substack.com on the departure of PM Starmer’s chief of staff and how it has exposed the party’s deception: zeteo.com/p/keir-starm...

The departure of Morgan McSweeney exposes Starmerism for what it is: a political project built on deception, created by people guided only by an insatiable desire for power, and a belief in their own invulnerability. graceblakeley.substack.com/p/the-purge-...

My podcast, The Roundup, is now available on Patreon as well as Substack! You can listen to this week's episode here: www.patreon.com/posts/roundu...

GDP growth is being held up by AI investment and the consumption of the very rich. But for the average American, things aren’t looking good. And if no one has a job, how are they going to afford their $20 per month OpenAI subscription? substack.com/home/post/p-...

6.8 million people in the UK living in very deep poverty. WTF

Politicians tell us they can fix poverty with economic growth, or labour market reforms, or easy money. But all of these fixes just obscure the fact that the poverty of those at the bottom is a direct consequence of the wealth of those at the top. graceblakeley.substack.com/p/the-uk-is-...

The cost-of-living crisis put an end to the era of easy money and exposed the profound weakness of an economy built on exploitation and extraction. Without the salve of cheap debt, old sores have begun to fester. graceblakeley.substack.com/p/the-uk-is-...

'The poverty of those at the bottom is a direct consequence of the wealth of those at the top. We will not solve poverty until we take on the power of the rich.' The truth, as ever, from @graceblakeley.substack.com open.substack.com/pub/gracebla...

The cost-of-living crisis put an end to the era of easy money and exposed the profound weakness of an economy built on exploitation and extraction. Without the salve of cheap debt, old sores have begun to fester. graceblakeley.substack.com/p/the-uk-is-...

Most of Epstein’s victims were either too frightened to come forward, or silenced through legal threats. Oh, and here’s a senior British politician giving Epstein tips on how to silence them

Day 14/30 of my 30 day books-by-women challenge! Choose 30 books, one per day, no particular order, that you’ve read that were written by women. #BookSky #BookChallenge #ReadingWomen #30DaysBooksByWomen Such an important book for now @graceblakeley.substack.com Vulture Capitalism. Read & learn.

This week's podcast looks at Minnesotans resisting fascism, Trump's naked imperialism, and the K-shaped recovery open.substack.com/pub/gracebla...

The fascist patriarchal narrative doesn't just legitimise abuses of power on the part of the ‘father’; it also infantilises his followers. They can leave politics to the head of the household. Minnesotans are fighting this story and taking back control. graceblakeley.substack.com/p/what-i-rea...

In the mercantilist world that emerged in the sixteenth century, rulers believed wealth was finite: if one country gained, another lost. Today the same logic applies to oil, gas, rare earths, or lithium. graceblakeley.substack.com/p/the-empire...

“Het verhaal waarin migranten de schuld krijgen, kent geen einde – omdat het nooit de veiligheid en welvaart zal brengen waar mensen naar verlangen. Het leven van Amerikanen zal steeds slechter worden en politici zullen steeds weer een nieuwe zondebok vinden – iedereen behalve de superrijken.”

The migrant-blaming story has no end point – because it will never deliver the safety and prosperity people crave. Americans lives will keep getting worse, and politicians will keep finding someone new to blame - anyone except the super-rich. open.substack.com/pub/gracebla...

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This is what happens when you blame migrants instead of billionaires open.substack.com/pub/gracebla...

TheMerode "Rethinking Freedom, Fairness, and the Economic Order with Grace( @graceblakeley.substack.com )Blakeley" www.youtube.com/watch?v=5u3W...

Paid subscribers can listen to all my Substack content in one handy place - read by me! And if you want to subscribe but can’t afford it I offer solidarity discounts 🤑 graceblakeley.substack.com/p/the-roundu...

In this episode of the @freefreeforum.bsky.social podcast, Clara Mattei discusses with @graceblakeley.substack.com how economic planning happens under capitalism and what democratic economic planning could look like. www.indep.network/podcast-epis...

Politicians can lie about almost anything, but they can’t say the economy is fine when people can’t afford to put food on the table. Biden made this mistake, and Trump seems to be repeating it, calling the affordability crisis a “hoax”. graceblakeley.substack.com/p/what-i-rea...

The Australia( @australiainstitute.org.au )Institute w/ Dr. Richard( @richarddenniss.bsky.social )Denniss "Grace( @graceblakeley.substack.com )Blakeley on Inequality, Democracy, and the Economy | Webinar" www.youtube.com/watch?v=xp6D...

Kapitalismin ongelmia analysoidaan paljon ja ne ovat olleet tiedossa pitkään. Vaikeassa ajassa olisi tärkeää keskittyä ratkaisuihin. @graceblakeley.substack.com avaa videolla hyvin, miksi demokraattinen suunnittelu on välttämätöntä aidosti vapaan ja luotettavan talouden rakentamiseksi.

Clara Mattei is one of my all time favourite academics and I really loved chatting with her on the FREE podcast. Make sure you follow @freefreeforum.bsky.social as they’re doing amazing work!

Monopoly doesn't end competition. It concentrates it, and pushes it onto everyone else. ▶ Full talk: youtu.be/LlyypkMf2aQ @graceblakeley.substack.com explains how "competitive individualism" gets inside our minds, our relationships, our mental health, and makes collective resistance harder.

This! "Of course, the liberal rules-based order was pure ideology, designed to lend legitimacy to a global economy based on imperialism. This ideology was already crumbling when Trump came to power, leaving little more than a hollow façade in its place."

The purpose of the liberal rules-based order was not to constrain the actions of the United States. It was to lend legitimacy to a world system structured around US empire. Trump has torn down this façade - what's left is the reality of naked imperialism. open.substack.com/pub/gracebla...

Trump’s invasion of Venezuela is simply the latest battle in a much larger war being waged by capital – centred in the US – on people and planet, writes @graceblakeley.substack.com.

The right has spent the last decade repeating controversial ideas until they became common sense. In doing so, they shiffted the political terrain. Liberals responded with triangulation, until the right became the centre ground. graceblakeley.substack.com/p/the-case-f...

Vulture Capitalism by @graceblakeley.substack.com is probably the best and most important book on Capitalism I've read since at least Shock Doctrine. Masterful.

Another great piece by @graceblakeley.substack.com, this time showing US (and other) imperialism hiding in plain sight. open.substack.com/pub/gracebla...

"You have to energise your base and alienate your opposition. You want the people who agree with you to be shouting really loudly about your message, not arguing about your opponents’ message. And you want your opponents to be angrily responding to your message, not loudly shouting theirs."

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Monopoly Capital Goes to War graceblakeley.substack.com/p/monopoly-c...

It’s the return of feudalism… those accruing the debt to survive are the surfs, whilst those exploiting them through credit ‘agreements’ are the Overlords!!

The cost of living crisis isn't over - and it's driving an unsustainable boom in household borrowing open.substack.com/pub/gracebla...

Even if you think AI is the most transformative innovation of the last several centuries, that doesn’t mean it’s not a bubble. We still use the infrastructure created during the railway and tech bubbles every day. With enough hype - and enough debt - useful technologies can still generate bubbles.

🤩 THANK YOU to the brilliant @graceblakeley.substack.com for explaining so clearly why @ofwat.bsky.social must say NO to Thames Water 🚫 NO to a 35% bill increase NO to pollution outside legal limits until 2040 NO to a dangerous new precedent for all privatised English water

"...with [oil] prices so low, [oil companies] would be unlikely to write any cheques. His only option would be to nationalise them for the sake of national security, like he did with Intel. Trump might end up having a lot more in common with Nicholas Maduro than anyone thought"