Why the Media Missed Free Zones — and Why That's Not an Accident The mainstream press missed it because Parliament never debated it. No Bill, no scandal. No committee stages, no headlines. europeanpowell.substack.com/p/he-great-f...

The Resolution Foundation’s “Unsung Britain” is an exercise in neoliberal excuse making for the politics of destruction www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2026/02...

Corbyn accused of undemocratic behaviour over alleged backroom deal The Canary has learned of an alleged backroom deal where Corbyn and his team replicate old and tired Westminster politics. What's going on? www.thecanary.co/uk/analysis/...

Why Isn’t U.K. doing the same? youtu.be/oZL-nRB23RI?...

🧵 The UK's national debt is £2.7 trillion. Politicians call it a burden on your grandchildren. But what if almost everything you've been told about it is wrong? A thread. 👇 #MMT

1. Many here seem bemused by the anger and disappointment this government attracts. Please bear with me while I try to explain it. Let’s begin with Gaza. Starmer’s complicity is one of the major reasons so many people are disillusioned. rethinkingsecurityorguk.wpcomstaging.com/2025/10/07/i... 🧵

Text messages between UK Health Minister and UK Ambassador to USA setting up meetings with “tech companies” poses some very serious questions that require an investigation. X

We start again next week.

In mid to late June, we will be in Brighton, London, Durham (just me this time), Stockholm and Brussels in that order. A lot of MMT and a bit of ecological economics. If you are anywhere near those places and would like to say hello, or come to an event, do let me know. [email protected]

Holy shit the Christmas of Christmases.

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-...

There are 550,000 new University students in the UK every year. Amazon alone could fund 200,000 of them if it paid taxes in the UK. This is how we funded higher education, the billionaires and their companies paid tax. Now they don't and you pay for the rest of your life.

"Rachel Reeves, David Lammy, John Healey.. Steve Reed.. Yvette Cooper, Bridget Phillipson.. Wes Streeting" Cabinet ministers coming out one after the other in support of Starmer is a reminder that its not just about Starmer, and its not just Starmer who should go.

The penny is finally dropping...

On a Plan 2 Student loan? Why freezing the repayment threshold from 2027 to 2030 is, in my view, a breach of natural justice. A brief audio explainer

Jacqui Smith defending Keir Starmer The fact that Smith can say Starmer is committed to tackling violence against women & girls after giving the friend of convicted paedophile a top govt job underlines her own political & moral bankruptcy. What people have to do for a peerage.

"You've repeatedly referenced Epsteins victims. The PM, Morgan McSweeney.. also referencing Epsteins victims, but [they] knew about Epsteins victims last summer when they appointed Mandelson.. why weren't they thinking & talking about the victims then?" 🎯

Many people on this platform just aren't getting it. The jig is up. The party's over. Unless Labour MPs eject Starmer PDQ, recover Labour values, show how they'll fix our chronic problems, give us hope and inspiration instead of disappointment and frustration, they're finished. No more denial. ⏰👃☕

@hackneyabbott.bsky.social : "They're now thinking they can throw McSweeney overboard and everything will calm down. I don't think so.. it is not whether he goes, its a question of when" #GMB

You would have to live under a rock today if you didnt understand the dangers of Palantir!! youtu.be/YftdpU4ElUQ?...

"I'm fighting a losing battle against the interest.. it wasn't what we were sold when we took out the loan" Last year Katie paid £2,038 towards her student debt while the interest added was £3,445. And what does the govt say about the scandal of student loans? "tough choices"

(1/9) Most UK political debate gets shut down by one question: “How will you pay for it?” It sounds sensible but it assumes the UK gov must get pounds before it can spend. That’s the wrong way to think about money. Here’s how money actually works: 👇️ 🧵#MMT

This excellent conference is being organised by one of our graduates - William Thomson - and the article also mentions two people who have contributed significantly towards our courses - John Harvey and Steve Keen. www.thenational.scot/news/2566124...

Ed Balls "People say McSweeney was the man who transformed Labs prospects from disaster to victory" @hackneyabbott.bsky.social "This idea that McSweeney was an election genius ignores the figures.. in '24 the Lab vote was more or less the same as '19. What happened was the Tory vote split"

Why Landlords are poison. Landlords do not provide housing, they take the money that would be spent on housing and steal it. Landlords massively increase the cost of housing, because it becomes worth the profit it can make Result - No houses and they are ridiculously expensive

You’re polling under 20%, lads

Yanis on Palantir and the Gaza #Genocide

Register now for MMTUK's launch event. Join MMT co-founder Professor Bill Mitchell and MMTUK Exec Director Patricia Pino as we launch our first policy proposal paper for a UK Job Guarantee. 📅 Wednesday 25th February, 7pm 📍 Friends Meeting House, Euston Road, London mmtuk.org/news/bill-mi... #MMT

Steve Wright from the @fbunational.bsky.social : "Listening to Pat [McFadden] then, we're expected to believe that nobody knew anything about this. Mandelson was known as the 'Prince of Darkness'. 'Forensic Keir', we're often told, did not do that due diligence" Spot on Steve.

Mandelson scandal is 'serious' for Starmer but PM is 'man of integrity', Brown says. How many pledges Starmer reneged on? Deeply divisive Mandelson had history of lying, was forced to resign as Minister, relationship with Epstein was known, still became ambassador, advisor to Starmer.

McFadden is right, just changing the leader doesn't fix anything. What we also need is to rid of you, Streeting, Cooper, Reed, Lammy, Mahmood etc, & thats never going to happen (not least because you've filled the PLP with lemmings who'll happily go over the cliff with you)

#McSweeney Lols...one more to go www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c7...

Morgan McSweeney resignation brings the departure of Keir Starmer one step closer.

"Should [Morgan McSweeney].. be standing down?" Pat McFadden: "I don't think he should" McFadden is a long time political ally of both Mandelson & McSweeney & all 3 worked together in wrecking, smearing & lying to regain control of Labour, & then purging to cement that control

You’re right The Sunday Times! Now keep going! Say it after me: “Billions in tax-payer money is being funnelled out of the NHS in various ways, because politicians are turning the NHS into a cash-cow for private shareholders.” www.thetimes.com/uk/healthcar...

… by what politicians are doing to the NHS. But Starmer should never have entered into this massive deal with private companies in the first place. His government should be properly investing in the publicly-owned service, in order to deliver for patients.

The dude whose company, thanks to Labour, will run our military analytics and to whom Wes Streeting is giving our personal healthcare data.

I’m writing today about this terrible deal with Trump which will see NHS medicine spending rise by billions 🚨🚨🚨. Sign up to receive the piece here: jujuliagrace.substack.com

Straight from the horse's mouth - the horse being the mighty CATO Institute - immigrants, both documented and undocumented, have essentially been an economic lifeline for the US economy over the last 30 years. You're welcome! www.cato.org/white-paper/...

For years, we have been talking about MMT to ecological economists; about ecological constraints to MMT economists; and about getting both the money system and the natural system it sits within right to everyone else. vimeo.com/1134916798

I always believed the purpose of Brexit was to destroy the ability of nation states to take on spiv capitalism. I never expected to see actual evidence of it.

Scotland’s AI Gold Rush: Deregulated Data Centres Threaten North Lanarkshire’s Communities and Environment open.substack.com/pub/european...

Of course the CPS does…can’t have juries making up their own mind against the wishes of the state.

Tony Benn had Mandelson sussed. Wise man!👍🏻

“The combined tuition fees of the entire Question Time panel would not cover my cost for 1 year of uni. Is that fair?” Oli Dugmore It’s absolutely NOT fair. This outrageous scandal must end

The thing is, you didn't have to be Nostradamus to see it. You just had to be independent of the ultra-rich. Unfortunately, the great majority of the media is in the plutocrats' pockets. So the people pointing it out are shunned. In 2009 I tried and tried to get the BBC to pick this up. But ...⛔🤐

From liberal mouthpiece Polly Toynbee who thought decent should-have-been PM socialist Jeremy Corbyn should be 'brought down' enthusiastically promoting #ItWasAScam the orchestrated "antisemitism" campaign of vitriolic abuse & lies to give us yet more years of Tory corruption & lethal austerity

Big polluters, climate deniers, and oil and gas interests have donated millions to Reform. Why? Because they trust them. But we don't. The Green Party is taking on Reform and their corporate backers - because we know whose interests they serve. Are you with us?

The rest of our society are also victims of Epsteins power brokering business, leaving us victim to a matrix of extremely dodgy individuals!! youtube.com/shorts/z887u...

That £240m contract Palantir won after Peter Mandelson took Keir Starmer to visit them? Government asserts "there were robust processes in place to ensure that government contracts are awarded fairly and transparently" but the award notice says it was a "directed award", ie without any competition.