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Will America Explode?

The current focus of the news, in virtually every country in the world, is on the American election. To the relief of many and the dismay of not a few, […]

Reasons Not to Feed Starving Children

During the summer, Marcus Rashford led a successful campaign which persuaded the government to make a U-turn and provide free school meals to the poorest children during the holiday period. […]

London Quakers’ Presentation

Here is an approximate transcript of the presentation Mark E Thomas made to the London Quakers’ Build Back Better Event on 24 October, 2020. We hope to have a video […]

What We Can Afford

The notion of unaffordability has been an extremely potent weapon for market fundamentalists. If we can’t afford to do something, it doesn’t matter how desirable it would be to do […]

The UK and the Rule of Law

We recently wrote about the existence of threats to democracy and the rule of law in the UK, drawing particular attention to the Internal Market Bill. Many members wrote to […]

How Did We Get Into This Mess?

The government’s rhetoric in relation to its handling of COVID has been superlative – in the literal sense: they have used superlatives to describe their performance. Johnson described the UK […]

Time for a New Picture of the Economy?

The conventional picture of how the economy works as shown in economics textbooks depicts a beautiful self-regulating system of supply and demand, which constantly seeks an equilibrium that ensures optimal […]

Is Sunak the new Mellon?

In a speech to the House last week, Rishi Sunak explained his thinking on how to protect businesses, jobs and the economy as a whole: “Our economy is now likely […]

Saving Democracy

Democracy is the worst form of Government except for all those other forms that have been tried from time to time – Winston Churchill The UK, of course, is a […]

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