The Economic Cost of a No-Deal Brexit
Prediction is very difficult, especially about the future. attributed to Niels Bohr The Prime Minister has promised to unleash the potential of Britain as soon as Brexit […]
The World is Burning — Why Aren’t We Acting?
“It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.” ― Upton Sinclair According to NASA, 97% of scientists […]
Rational Opposition
A moment’s thought would have shown him. But a moment is a long time, and thought is a painful process. A E Housman The UK’s two main opposition parties […]
A Fair Deal for Millennials?
The old sometimes give the impression that the reason millennials struggle to buy a house is that they drink too many lattes and eat too many crushed avocados. The young […]
A New Year Letter from Mark E Thomas
Dear Friends, Happy New Year! What a year 2019 turned out to be! In the UK, after 10 years of austerity, we have a new government, most of whose […]
Looking back at 2019
Do the difficult things while they are easy and do the great things while they are small. A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step. Laozi […]
Going Post-Post-Truth
Post-truth (adjective): relating to or denoting circumstances in which objective facts are less influential in shaping public opinion thyan appeals to emotion and personal belief. In 2016, Oxford Dictionaries […]
Johnson Won. What Can We Do?
Nothing in life is to be feared; it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less. Marie Curie The general […]
Speech to the Gladstone Club
This is a transcript of my speech to the Gladstone Club on Monday, 9 December, 2019 Good evening. In three days, we go to the polls in probably the most […]
UK General Election 2019
The 99% Organisation is not affiliated with any political party. But it clearly stands against mass impoverishment and against the market fundamentalist philosophy. As many people – including John Major, […]