How the unfairness at the heart of the Council Tax may be affecting you and how a disturbing rise in missed Council Tax payments may be a sign of a coming recession.

Mark Perryman calls time on the forthcoming Thatcher Centenary. Margaret Thatcher’s 13 October 2025 centenary is a moment to reflect on how she, or more accurately ‘Thatcherism’, …

Most Scots have little idea how Scotland came to be part of the UK, but more people are now beginning to question what Scotland really gains from being in the Union as politics in Britain grows ever more chaotic. This film explores the story of the Project Arbroath initiative. It is an initiative t

In 2011, I finally did something that I had been planning to do for many years: I wrote a book on economics that brought together much of my thinking at that time. It was called The Courageous State. I suspect few readers here now know of the book, but it is...

The ideology of the ‘Make America Great Again’ movement, which has transformed politics in the United States, is having an impact in the UK. But how is this influence being transmitted?

Our economy isn’t working. It’s built on lies: the myth of growth, the myth that profit comes before people, and the myth that wealth is more important than fairness. If we want a sustainable society, we need a new moral code for the economy. In this video, I set out ten commandments for...

The recent justice reforms treat juries as if they are expected or capable of somehow divining ‘the truth’ through an opaque system. A radical look at justice would ask what the pursuit of truth actually looked like.

This is from the excellent Democracy for Sale, which I recommend as one of the fastest-growing monitors of corruption in politics. Follow them here. In this episode, Peter Geoghegan speaks to Georg…

As the Guardian reports this morning: The government has said it will underwrite a £1.5bn loan guarantee to Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) as the carmaker battles the consequences of a recent cyber-attack. JLR had to suspend production at its UK factories for several weeks after being targeted by hackers with the shutdown expected to...