Episodes

Wednesday Mar 26, 2025
Wednesday Mar 26, 2025
I was interviewed on BBC Look North on 25 March 2025. This is an audio recording of the interview made as it was being recorded from my computer and from me, live into the microphone.

Tuesday Mar 25, 2025
Tuesday Mar 25, 2025
Fiscal rules are works of fiction. They are as made up as fairy tales are, and yet the Chancellor is asking us to believe that she should manage the economy by complying with them. Why is she so deeply misguided, whilst taking us for fools?

Monday Mar 24, 2025
Monday Mar 24, 2025
The thing about government is that it is meant to outlast any political administration and even us. It is meant to be permanent; the bedrock on which we build country, an economy and even an identity. What happens when a politician treats it as peripheral to the point that it is expendable? Can we survive that?

Sunday Mar 23, 2025
Sunday Mar 23, 2025
Ravel Reeves thinks she is facing an economic crisis. She’s wrong. She and Labour are facing a political crisis that demands that she spends. But will she realise that?

Saturday Mar 22, 2025
Saturday Mar 22, 2025
If politics is always about resolving the conflicts within and between groups in society so that they can co-exist, even if one is favoured over another, why is it that Trump seems intent on stoking animosity and conflict? Is he even doing politics?

Friday Mar 21, 2025
Friday Mar 21, 2025
UK ministers are claiming ill health is over-medicalised in the UK. It isn’t. It’s under-politicised instead. It’s neoliberalism that is making us ill, but they refuse to recognise that fact.

Thursday Mar 20, 2025
Thursday Mar 20, 2025
Anger has a bad name. Too often we’re now told being angry is unacceptable. That though is just the forces of power trying to impose control and order. In the world of growing injustice in which we live being angry is absolutely essential if change is going to happen.

Wednesday Mar 19, 2025
Wednesday Mar 19, 2025
The government says it must balance its books and benefits cost too much, so they must be cut. Nothing could be further from the truth.

Tuesday Mar 18, 2025
Tuesday Mar 18, 2025
Trump, Vance and Musk say they’re free speech extremists – and they are. They’ve set out to remove the right to free speech from everyone but oligarchs. As with everything they say – the truth is the opposite of what they claim.

Monday Mar 17, 2025
Monday Mar 17, 2025
Starmer believes in government by private equity fund managers. The EU doesn’t. That’s why Starmer will never get close to Europe.