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Somebody else has joined Reform - Progressive Pulse
- as this Guardian photo confirms: This is ex Tory and Lord, Malcolm Offord who is to lead Reform in Scotland. I know of him because he kindly explained the money system five years ago in the Spectato...
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January 15, 2026 at 6:12 PM
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Life is a network - Progressive Pulse
Life itself is fundamentally a network. Even Trump somehow actually can't do everything himself! What Richard Murphy has called the politics of care, some time ago, I called the politics of love and h...
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January 15, 2026 at 1:56 AM
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Make community power central to devolution
We know what’s possible when local people are trusted with real power. We’ve seen it in places where communities have taken ownership of buildings, stepped in to deliver public services where the syst...
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January 12, 2026 at 10:56 PM
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Debt, 'Full Funding' and Record Keeping, or why double-entry has become a 'liability'.. - Progressive Pulse
Allegedly, Britain has more accountants per head than any other nation... Yet that doesn't seem to prevent the general view that government is a household. What, it seems to me encourages this, is tha...
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January 12, 2026 at 10:12 PM
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Not yet Trump overeach perhaps - but it must be coming... - Progressive Pulse
Cartoon by Pat Bagley Salt Lake Tribune Salt Lake City is in Utah, which is a Republican stronghold. If even they think cartoons like this are worth printing, American opinion must be on the move I su...
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January 8, 2026 at 7:58 PM
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Foreign Exchange and ways of keeping a stable pound - Progressive Pulse
Should countries eschew current account deficits? In the best of all possible worlds, probably, I suggest. And in the world of post Brexit 'sovereignty', the maximum sovereignty will come from being s...
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January 5, 2026 at 11:31 PM
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Thatcher got something right... - Progressive Pulse
....this was from her in an interview with none other than The Jewish Chronicle, from 19 June 1981 If we are not going to live by a system of international law, we are going to live by international a...
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January 5, 2026 at 8:26 PM
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RIP my dear Adèle - Progressive Pulse
The irony of this posting immediately after my post on communications strategy is not lost on me. As an explanation of my prolonged silence over Christmas and the New Year I much regret to have to sta...
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January 2, 2026 at 8:16 PM
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Communications strategy - Progressive Pulse
If strategy isn't a too impressive idea for what the Labour government is currently doing... They should note that their crazy idea of adopting and outdoing Reform and the Tories' terms of reference f...
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January 2, 2026 at 7:37 PM
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January 1, 2026 at 12:57 PM
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I've had a Marxist to stay... - Progressive Pulse
To be fair I think she's still in training...Though I always thought that Marxism was dialectical anyway, so actually it was likely to be changing in the light of evidence, all the time. Yet a decided...
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December 21, 2025 at 12:25 PM
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The antisemitic trope - Progressive Pulse
I'm appalled as we all are, by the murders at the beautiful Bondi Beach. Was it a terrorist attack? Very probably. Yet downplayed is that a Muslim Australian tried to disarm a gunman at considerable a...
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December 17, 2025 at 11:14 PM
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Verdant doubts - Progressive Pulse
We now learn that yet another think tank is to be created - mind you this one to be called Verdant, is on the left. Whether it is - economically at least, is highly doubtful because, although Deborah ...
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December 15, 2025 at 12:41 PM
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This doesn't look like the face of psycopathy - Progressive Pulse
But I fear it probably is: These staggering figures are just, straight immoral. No wonder she doesn't do interviews...
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December 11, 2025 at 9:47 PM
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Creating money is how government gets stuff done - not 'fiscal rules' chess - Progressive Pulse
We have known this - or should have, since 1866. And, one might have thought, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, being a chess champion (of whatever sort) might have been more aware of the notion of 'ch...
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December 9, 2025 at 10:14 PM
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“Taxpayers’ money” has a magnetic attraction towards the wealthy … - Progressive Pulse
The rich mostly increase their wealth by leeching off sources of government money - the government can never default and they tend to do things that people cannot do without, so a nice government cont...
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December 7, 2025 at 7:39 PM
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Princes of the yen - Progressive Pulse
What? a link to a video of the Tucker Carlson Show on a progressive blog? Yes it is for real, and surprisingly, well worth the two and three quarter hours it takes - I did it at two sittings. Fortunat...
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December 5, 2025 at 5:41 PM
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Starting to undo the failed state... - Progressive Pulse
In the engaging argument between Richard Murphy and Grace Blakeley, Grace Blakeley thinks that Modern Monetary Theory is correct but concludes with exaggerated emphasis I think: Socialists who sympath...
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December 2, 2025 at 10:35 AM
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International Currency and International Trade - Progressive Pulse
This is a difficult area both for me (I struggle in understanding it clearly) and also I suggest, for Modern Money, or if you prefer Modern Monetary Theory which is, of course, how government creates ...
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December 1, 2025 at 10:00 PM
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Labour suggests money 'shortage' now the reason we cannot have a functioning justice system - Progressive Pulse
This is what David Lammy tweeted in 2020: What Lammy thought was a bad idea in 2020 it appears is now set to be government policy changed by - er - David Lammy. What changed apart from the Austerity m...
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November 30, 2025 at 6:33 PM
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Privatisation or productivity? - Progressive Pulse
We are continually told including, of course, in today's budget, that Britain has lower productivity than other comparable countries.What we are never told is that the privatisation of services that w...
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November 26, 2025 at 9:51 PM
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The Corporate Christmas Fairy - Progressive Pulse
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November 23, 2025 at 9:24 PM
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This is the direction of financialised neoliberal capitalism... - Progressive Pulse
Even building societies cannot avoid being an integral part of it... I have some savings with Skipton so I suppose that I must look like a good target for their 'booster' mortgage. They have taken a l...
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November 21, 2025 at 3:54 PM
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The modern money narrators have missed a trick... - Progressive Pulse
Their concentration should, I've reluctantly concluded, not be on the academic concept or even the promotion of the practicality of how money is created - but rather on opposing the actual deceptions ...
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November 19, 2025 at 12:22 AM
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We all are, or will be, disabled - Progressive Pulse
My very intermittent posting is caused by partner being suddenly diagnosed with Motor Neurone Disease. Within a month she has somehow gone from walking most weekends about 6-10 miles on Dartmoor and s...
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November 16, 2025 at 8:30 PM