Funding the Future

The alternative budget we need

Rachel Reeves will not fix Britain today.
So I’ve published my Alternative Budget for 2025 — a complete plan to end austerity, rebuild public services, reconnect savings with investment, reform the Treasury, bring the Bank of England back under democratic control, transform housing, and fund a green transition.
This video is a full guided tour through the ideas in the 20,000-word budget I’ve just released on Funding the Future.
Download the full PDF here: https://www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/downloads/  
We can rebuild this country. We just need to stop believing the myths about money, tax and “borrowing”.
Hope is a policy choice.

The Finance Curse: Housing, Banks and Crisis.

In this podcast, I talk with John Christensen, co-founder of the Tax Justice Network, about whether Britain can escape the final stage of a decades-long inflationary cycle without social and political rupture.
We explore Jersey as an early warning of the “finance curse,” the extraordinary scale of the housing shock, the generational wealth divide engineered by decades of rising house prices, and why younger people are locked out of economic security.
We discuss how government policy helped create the crisis, why zombie banks are now vulnerable to falling asset prices, and what the end of a long inflationary wave has meant throughout history.
We end with the reforms that could save Britain: mass social housebuilding, capital controls, redirected savings, and democratic control of credit creation.
The choice now is stark: reform or rupture.

The ultra-processed food crisis

Ultra-processed foods now make up at least half of all food sold in UK supermarkets. The Lancet has described them as a “corporate-engineered public health crisis.” That is exactly what they are: industrial products designed for profit, not nutrition. They override appetite control, promote over-consumption, and push out real food alternatives.
These foods are cheap because wages are low, access to fresh food is unequal, and corporate concentration has eliminated choice. The result is a society burdened with obesity, diabetes, heart disease and cancers — and an NHS stretched to breaking point. None of this is accidental.
In this video, I explain how ultra-processed food became unavoidable, why it is a systemic economic issue rather than a personal failure, and what the government can do now: from food labelling and advertising bans to taxing ultra-processed products and subsidising real food. We can change this — but only if we confront corporate power.

Governments aren't like households

Politicians constantly claim that the government must “live within its means”, just like any family. In this video, I explain why the household analogy is not only wrong — it is the foundation of austerity, underfunded services, infrastructure decay, suppressed wages and collapsing public trust.
Governments create money. Households use money.
Governments must manage real resources, not bank balances.
And when governments cut spending, their income falls — the exact opposite of what happens to you or me.
Understanding this difference is essential if we want a better economy, proper public services, fairer taxation and a stronger democracy.

Why did Britain stop making?

For forty years we were told that Britain didn’t need manufacturing — finance would make us rich. That experiment has failed. We import more than we export, our towns have been hollowed out, and our prosperity rests on hot money and property bubbles rather than productive capacity.
In this video, I explain why Britain’s industrial collapse was a political choice, how Thatcherism destroyed long-term investment, why Labour still worships foreign takeovers, and why rebuilding national capability now requires deliberate government action.
We need regional public investment banks, a tax system that rewards real production, not speculation, and a new industrial strategy that blends modern manufacturing with care, education and innovation. This is about well-being, security, and the future of our democracy.

Reeves is unravelling

Rachel Reeves is presenting a budget built on assumptions that simply cannot survive the world we are about to enter. Share prices are likely to fall sharply. A banking crisis may follow. Pension funds could be hit harder than at any time since 2008.
And the Chancellor? She has offered only cuts, caution and neoliberal wishful thinking.
In this video, I explain why her budget is unravelling before she even delivers it — and why government action, not austerity, will be the only way out of the crisis that is coming.
 
Do you think Rachel Reeves is prepared for the crisis that may be about to hit the UK economy?

Is the political order collapsing?

Across the West, governments are failing. Trump, Starmer, Macron, Merz and others are losing authority at the very moment crises demand leadership. Far-right movements are fracturing. Neoliberalism has run out of ideas.
In this video, I explore why political legitimacy is evaporating and why a politics of care – grounded in real action, community investment and democratic renewal – is now the only viable way forward.

Is the crash happening?

Financial markets across the world are flashing red. The S&P 500 has finally turned down after weeks and even months of irrational optimism. The FTSE 100 is sliding. Gold is falling. Bitcoin and the broader crypto market are collapsing.
In this video, I explain why these signals point to an imminent crash – not next year, not in theory, but now. I explore why hype has replaced fundamentals, how AI-driven debt issuance has destabilised markets, and why political leaders today lack the competence to manage what’s coming.
Are we ready for the consequences? I’m not sure we are.
 

Profit without purpose = market failure

Profit can be good if it serves society. But when profit becomes the only goal, trust collapses, workers suffer, and the planet pays the price. In this video, I  ask whether modern capitalism has lost its moral foundation and what a profit with purpose would look like.

Why do professionals hate change?

Why do accountants, economists, lawyers, medics, politicians and civil servants all resist the very changes the world needs?
In this video, I explain why top-tier professionals cling to failing systems, defend obsolete ideas, and punish those who challenge accepted wisdom. From currency debates to medical hierarchies, the professions close ranks to protect their status, not the public.
This is about fear, conformity, institutional culture—and the cost we all pay for it.
Real reform requires unreasonable people willing to defy failing norms. Until courage replaces compliance, nothing will change.