Funding the Future

Is GDP a useless measure?

GDP dominates political debate, but it tells us almost nothing about real prosperity, well-being, or care. 
Created as a technical statistic of massive use in wartime, GDP was never meant to measure success and yet it now drives policy, justifies inequality, and is used as an excuse for austerity.
 
In this video, I explain why GDP is conceptually flawed, how it rewards harm and ignores distribution, and why we urgently need economic measures that value care, prevention, and human flourishing instead of economic churn of no value at all.

What's the choice? Care or fascism?

This video argues that we are facing a stark economic and political choice: fascism or care.
Fascism is not history. It is happening now. It has a distinct economic logic built on extreme neoliberalism:
Market worship
Punishment instead of protection
Austerity
Fear, and
The use of the state to enforce cruelty while insulating wealth.
The economics of care offers a different framework entirely. It puts human needs first, makes security and freedom from fear a public duty, and insists that markets must serve people rather than control them. Care is not sentimental. It is economic realism, social resilience, and democracy’s defence.
This is not an abstract debate. The structures we build now will decide whether we live in a society organised around fear or one organised around care.
That is the choice. And there is no neutral ground.

Politics has run out of road

Neoliberal politics promised growth, efficiency, and renewal. What it has delivered is inequality, insecurity, and democratic exhaustion. The right has failed.
But, as this video explains, much of the left has no alternative to offer. Labour’s fiscal rules, growth-first economics, and treatment of public services as costs are not left-wing ideas – they are neoliberalism with a softer tone.
No wonder most people are alienated from the whole political process: it has run out of road.
Without care at the centre of economic thinking, markets fragment society, trust collapses, and democracy weakens. Better management is not enough. We need care as a new organising principle.

Is Farage a fascist strongman?

Is Nigel Farage the strongman who could deliver fascism to the UK? Or is that the wrong way to understand the danger he represents?
In this video, I examine what fascism actually requires: ideology, discipline, institutions, and the willingness to rule. By those standards, Farage fails the test.
But that does not make him harmless. Farage’s role is not to govern, but to corrode democracy, normalise cruelty, and weaken trust in institutions. Fascism often arrives after the wreckers, like him, have done their work.
This is a video about why getting this distinction right matters, and why Farage remains a serious threat even without the qualities of a fascist leader.

Is your pension safe?

People assume pensions are “saved money” — a pot with their name on it, safely invested for the future. They aren’t.
In this video, I explain how UK pensions actually work, why defined contribution pensions are inherently risky, and why most pension money fuels speculation rather than real investment.
I look at the state pension, defined benefit schemes, and defined contribution pensions and explain who really benefits from the current system, why it is unjust, and why reform is now unavoidable.
This is not pension advice. It is a political economy explanation of why pension insecurity is being built into the system by design.

AI does not care

We are told that artificial intelligence can replace human judgment. It cannot.
In this video, I explain why AI does not care, why it cannot exercise judgment, and why deploying it at scale embeds neoliberal values into decision-making by design.
Algorithms prioritise efficiency, cost reduction and rule-following. Judgment requires care, context, responsibility and democratic accountability.
This is not a technical debate. It is a political choice about the kind of economy and society we want to live in.

Neoliberalism was not an accident

Neoliberalism did not just “happen”. It was planned, funded, and carefully rolled out over decades.
In this conversation with John Christensen, co-founder of the Tax Justice Network, we trace how the post-war economic settlement worked, why it delivered rising living standards and falling inequality, and how it was deliberately dismantled.
We then discuss the role of think tanks, banks, tax havens, the Washington Consensus, and offshore finance in shifting power away from democracy and towards wealth extractors. And we also ask why neoliberalism survived even after the 2008 crash, before addressing what must replace it if democracy, equality and functioning markets are to be restored.
This is not abstract economics. It is about power, politics, and the choices we were told we did not have.

Are you the media now?

People keep asking me what they can do to help change the conversation about economics, politics, and power. The answer is simpler, and more important, than most people expect.
Social media now decides what people see, hear, and believe. If our ideas are not present there, they effectively do not exist. Silence is not neutral; it cedes the space to those who already dominate it.
In this video, I explain why liking, sharing, commenting, and eventually creating your own posts are now forms of civic action. I also explain how algorithms really work, why perfection is not required, how AI can help without replacing judgement, and why consistency matters more than scale.
This is a practical guide to becoming part of the conversation and shaping it.

Why are empires failing?

The world is being shaped by three power blocs: the USA, Russia and China. Their politics look very different, but I  argue in this video that they have something profound in common. They are all built on division.
America’s founding constitutional promise of equality was never universal. Marxism defines justice through conflict between classes. Neoliberalism claims wealth is merit and poverty is failure. All these systems end up privileging some people, excluding others, and turning difference into justification for domination.
That is not sustainable. If we want a stable world, we need a politics of inclusion, not exclusion. We need a politics of care. And we need the world’s “middle states” to embrace it, because good ideas are the only real counterweight to imperial power.

Neoliberalism is dying: what's next?

Are we living through the end of the neoliberal era?
I think we are, and I think the moment it became undeniable was Mark Carney’s speech at Davos.
Neoliberalism wasn’t an accident. It was a deliberate ideological project built around the myth that “freedom through markets” would deliver freedom for everyone. Instead, it delivered:
rent extraction
precarity
instability
a hollowed-out state
rising inequality and insecurity
In this video, I explain how neoliberalism was constructed, why it relied on weakening democracy, why it evolved into rentier capitalism, and why it is now collapsing in plain sight, economically, socially, and politically.
And then I ask the real question: what replaces it? Is that a politics of care — or authoritarianism?