Funding the Future

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.

“We can afford whatever we can do”

John Maynard Keynes said, “We can afford whatever we can do.” Few sentences in economics are more radical. In this video, I explain what he really meant — and why it matters more now than ever.
A currency-issuing government cannot run out of its own money. The true constraints on public action are people, skills, energy and materials — not a Treasury balance sheet. That means the key question is not “What can we afford?” but “What should we choose to do?”
This is the heart of democracy. Markets chase profit, not the public good. Only the state can set society’s goals, mobilise idle resources, and tax to free capacity for essential work. Keynes used these tools to direct the British war economies. We can use them now for housing, care, education, climate transition and energy security.
This video explains why politics – not markets – must lead, and why tax and spending are tools of direction, not constraints. Keynes gives us a moral economics. It’s time we used it.

Kings, knights and the magic money tree

Most people in the UK still believe in the power of royalty — and the power of the honours system. We accept that a knighthood is created from nothing with a tap of the King’s sword. Yet many refuse to accept that the government creates money in exactly the same way: by tapping a few keys on a keyboard.
In this video, I explain why knighthoods and money share the same foundations: state authority, public trust, and responsible stewardship.
Money is not limited. Knighthoods are not limited. Both can be over-issued. Both can be under-issued. And both are destroyed when they’re no longer needed.
If you believe in the power to create honours, you already believe in the power to create money — even if you’ve been told otherwise.

Can Reeves' budget survive Labour's collapse?

Rachel Reeves plans to deliver a budget on 26 November — but how can she do that when the Labour government is falling apart? Cabinet briefings, internal plotting and collapsing confidence mean Labour has lost its coherence just when Britain needs leadership. A budget is a statement of belief and purpose. Right now, this government has neither.
In this video, I explain why Reeves’ commitment to Tory fiscal rules leaves her unable to act, why Starmer cannot articulate a vision, and why Britain desperately needs investment, fair wages and a politics of care. Can a government with no conviction deliver a budget worth listening to?
 

The BBC Coup: Is Truth Under Siege?

Is there a coup underway at the BBC? When journalists are punished for minor mistakes while truth-tellers are silenced, that’s not accountability — that’s control. In this video, I explore how the BBC has become the front line in a far-right campaign to destroy truth itself, and why this matters for democracy in Britain and beyond.

We can’t afford the wealthy

Every day we’re told that Britain can’t afford the poor and that there isn’t enough money for care, housing or wages. But the truth is the opposite: it’s the poor who can’t afford the rich.
In this video, I explain how wealth extraction through interest, rent, and monopoly profit acts like three hidden taxes on us all. These “taxes of rentier capitalism” drain our pay, inflate our bills, and keep poverty in place.
What this makes clear is that scarcity is a political choice, not an economic fact. Fiscal rules, low taxes on capital and privatisation all serve the wealthy, not society. Ending these subsidies could release the capacity for the investment we need in care, housing, and decent wages.
If we stop affording the rich, we can afford everyone else.
 

Did the 1970s really kill Keynes?

We’re told that the 1970s proved Keynesian economics failed, that inflation and unemployment could rise together, and only neoliberalism could fix it. But the truth is very different. External shocks, not excessive spending, drove that crisis. Governments panicked, misunderstood money, and abandoned Keynes when they needed him most.
In this video, I unpack what really caused stagflation — and why repeating those mistakes today risks another lost decade for Britain.
 

The crisis in the news

The news is lying to you — and Britain is falling apart behind the scenes
Every night, the lights are bright, the headlines loud — but the real news is missing.
While the media fixates on Trump, Farage and the Royals, Britain’s children go hungry, families can’t afford homes, and carers are exhausted.
In this video, I explain how the theatre of distraction keeps us angry but uninformed — and why we must reclaim the news for the Politics of Care: food, housing, health, and climate.
Watch, share, and join the conversation: it’s time to stop funding the circus.

Laffer’s Curve was wrong

Arthur Laffer’s “curve” is one of the most destructive ideas in modern economics.
Sketched on a napkin in the 1970s, it claimed that cutting tax rates could increase government revenue.
It became gospel for Reagan, Thatcher and every neoliberal government since.
But it was wrong.
In this video, I explain why Laffer misunderstood tax, ignored inequality, and helped unleash tax competition that undermined democracy.
I debated Laffer in person — and I’ll show you why his logic collapses when tested against modern money and real economies and the idea that fair taxation builds strong societies, whilst low taxation builds fragile ones.