Richard Murphy: Tory austerity has delivered the worst decade for UK productivity growth since the 18th century

Until the Russia-Ukraine crisis, Professor John Mearsheimer was mainly known in academic circles as a leading scholar in the “realist” school of foreign policy. That is to say, he takes an unsentimental view of world […]

Outsourcing and the gig economy have become modern slavery. It is very convenient to ignore because it is cheap and hidden. Except for those who have to earn their living from it. Read here  

My rule of thumb is this: 1. If the financial markets are interested in something it is better for the rest of us to keep them at bay. 2. Do not allow ‘private profitability’ to […]