October 2022

The omni-shambles of Liz Truss was more than an ideological experiment backfiring. It was the culmination of 12 years of ineptitude, marked by the weakly opposed fleecing of the social fabric through austerity, and forty years during which rentier capitalism has become entrenched. While Rishi Sunak will delight his friends in the financial markets, the

A detailed report in the Financial Times this morning lays out the options being considered by new Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and his likely Chancellor, Jeremy Hunt, ahead of the fiscal statement on October 31. Aside from a hint that Sunak may want to move the date – unlikely, given the close match between PM,

Very interesting report in the Telegraph this morning, seemingly briefed by the Treasury, on Chancellor Jeremy Hunt’s thinking ahead of the 31 October fiscal statement, billed by Hunt on Monday last week as the occasion for “eye-watering” cuts. Media reports following duly followed in turn, threatening a return to the bad old days of George

Politics is about people, about our different views and our understandings about people – about what motivates them, why they behave in the way they do, and what will most help or hinder them. In the spring of 2016 I published a short book titled: ‘A Better Politics: How Government Can Make Us Happier’ which