A heartbreaking image of two little girls separated from loved ones in Mariupol on the front page of the Guardian today. In a strange way I find it the most directly affecting image I've seen th… (View Post)

I'm not sure that Johnson's rhetoric today about "ramping up lethal aid to Ukraine" is the vote-winner he thinks it is. The unpalatable truth is that most people are exhausted by … (View Post)

The 1970's had similar levels of inflation, but also far lower levels of social inequality. The effects of similar economic shocks, combined with post-Thatcherite levels of inequality, are not g… (View Post)

Societies that are both more equal, and economically performing better, will probably weather the social and economic storms better. The usual suspects - northwestern Europe beyond the UK, and possib… (View Post)

Torsten Bell is absolutely right. It shouldn't come as too much of a surprise, though - Sunak did absolutely nothing to stop the both economically and socially lunatic benefit cut last year, eve… (View Post)