Funding the Future

How do we get competent politicians?

Anyone can become an MP. No training is required, and them they set the rules for everyone else. That’s absurd. All prospective parliamentarians and councillors should have to take an exam to prove their competence.

Will uninsurability crash the housing market?

Fire and flooding are making houses uninsurable. Will this crash the housing market? There are strong signs it will, unless the government takes action.

DeepSeek is shaking up US capitalism

The DeepSeek AI model challenges US capitalism at its very core – suggesting its whole model of creating value for a few by extracting maximum revenues from people as a result of the abuse of monopoly power might have to end.

People want better government

Rachel Reeves thinks people want deregulation, growth and big infrastructure from government, She’s wrong. They want government that works, better jobs and lower interest rates.

Charter cities would destroy the UK

Charter cities are a right-wing fantasy. They’re being prompted by the same people who gave us the economics of Liz Truss. And they’d be even more harmful than she was.

Why are consumers worried?

UK consumers think there’s trouble ahead and are cutting their spending as a result. That’s the combined fault of the Bank of England and Rachel Reeves, and no one else but them can put matters right.

Is Bitcoin the new gold?

People are claiming Bitcoin is the new gold. It isn’t. It is nothing like gold. But more than that we don’t need to be on the gold standard ever again. It destroyed the world economy.

Is Starmer worse than Truss?

Labour is sinking so fast in my estimation that I now think it could already be worse than the government of Liz Truss, and could be very much worse soon.

Is Trump mad or bad?

Trump’s first few days in office make it clear he’s either mad or bad, because there are no other explanations available for what is happening. But is it possible he’s both?

The curse of the household analogy

Politicians claim countries must be run like households, and that’s completely wrong. In fact, most often the exact opposite is true.