ENERGY price rises are soon going to be the cause of a lot of poverty in the UK, writes Professor Richard Murphy. So, what follows is a bit simplified, but…
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Twenty-seven killed in Turkish flash flooding, with southern Europe bracing for more extreme weather The death toll from flash floods in Turkey has reached 27 and fresh wildfires erupted on the ravaged…
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Unemployed black youth over 40 per cent!
12 April 2021Close to half of all black youths are unemployed. They have been hit three times harder during the pandemic than white workers of the same age. The Guardian newspaper reports…
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The Wealth Hoarders. How Billionaires Spend Millions to Hide Trillions by Chuck Collins published just before April Fool’s Day 2021. Perhaps you know the feeling when you pick up a…
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Economic Nutshells from start to finish
10 March 2021by Scribimus 1 What Money Is Barter has never been the basis for any economy as it relies on the coincidence of needs, that both people need what the other…
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No, Thatcher Didn’t Save the Economy – excerpt from Tribune
8 December 2020“Thatcher’s policies in fact had a disastrous effect on the UK’s economy and its workers, both then and to this day.”
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The government should waste no time to cut pensioner benefits, a think tank director urged the Conservative conference in Manchester. Many elderly hit by a cut to the winter fuel…
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Border queues and food shortages if no Brexit deal
4 October 2020A Brexit no-deal will be seen at the border, with risks of queues, food shortages, new troubles in Northern Ireland, even tit for tat economic sniping with the EU, an…
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FEEDING THE MANY
5 September 2020A few months ago I gave a speech at a Zoom meeting in which the central question was: “Where Does Socialism Go Next?” My argument was simple. Forget party politics,…
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Quantitative Easing, however applied, should not cause runaway inflation; Modern Monetary Theorists told you that way back, and have been proved correct The Furlough, money for the poor, money injected…
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