Funding the Future

Are our politicians frightened of wealthy people?

The UK does not need government run for the benefit of the wealthiest. But that is what it has got. When it needs government run for people in need the exact opposite is what Labour is delivering. Is that because it’s frightened of wealthy people?

Will Trump deliver?

Trump is promising economic and social mayhem for the USA, and all those places it influences. Will he deliver?

Are all politicians junkies?

Looking at the people who now describe themselves as politicians it’s reasonable to ask why they are pursuing that vocation because they don’t seem to have a conviction of consequence between the lot of them. Could it be that they’re a bunch of dopamine junkies, in it for the short-term fixes politics gives them?

Nationalising water shouldn’t cost taxpayers anything

Labour claims taxpayers would face a massive bill for nationalising the water industry. But that’s not true. If a fair price is paid for the businesses and their debts, nationalising should impose no cash cost on the Treasury at all.

Does money just disappear in a crash?

When crashes happen vast quantities of money are reported as being lost. But are they really? Or is it that they actually just cease to exist? It’s an important question, needing an answer. 

Does the NHS need advice from bankers?

Rachel Reeves must think the only job a government has is to balance its books. There can be no other explanation for the insanity of calling in bankers to advise on the NHS.

We need a carbon army

The UK’s domestic properties need transformation if we are to meet out climate targets – and we need a carbon army of trained people to undertake that task.

Trump’s planning to crash the global economy

Trump is planning trade wars and sanctions that are bound to crash the world economy. But what he knows is that the resulting bailout will make the wealthy even more wealthy, yet again. His policy is both mad and entirely rational from his viewpoint.

Politics has to be about care

Democracy is under threat around the world from the politics of hate peddled by the far-right. In political terms, the opposite of hate is care, and the problem is that care’s gone missing in the mainstream political narrative.

The government’s losing nearly £60 billion a year to fraud

 
The government’s own data on fraud suggests it loses £58.8 billion a year, but that’s bound to be understated as there are no systems to detect fraud in two thirds of government activity. What is going on?