Funding the Future

UK ministers are claiming ill health is over-medicalised in the UK. It isn’t. It’s under-politicised instead. It’s neoliberalism that is making us ill, but they refuse to recognise that fact.

Anger has a bad name. Too often we’re now told being angry is unacceptable. That though is just the forces of power trying to impose control and order. In the world of growing injustice in which we live being angry is absolutely essential if change is going to happen. 

The government says it must balance its books and benefits cost too much, so they must be cut. Nothing could be further from the truth.

Trump, Vance and Musk say they’re free speech extremists – and they are. They’ve set out to remove the right to free speech from everyone but oligarchs. As with everything they say – the truth is the opposite of what they claim.

Starmer believes in government by private equity fund managers. The EU doesn’t. That’s why Starmer will never get close to Europe.

The share price of Tesla has halved since December. The world has realised Musk cannot manage. 

Labour is trying to force ever more people into work when AI, recession, and the demise of the jobs best suited to those with disabilities means there are ever fewer jobs available. When will they wake up to reality?

Elon Musk says empathy is threatening civilisation. He’s wrong. He is that threat. What’s worse though is tha t the threat is all totally consistent with neoliberal economics.

There is well over $200 billion of Russian money in Europe and the UK that could be used to help the Ukraine, but our politicians are reluctant to do that in case countries like China and Saudi Arabia then cease to use European banks. Are they right, or wrong? 

Trump’s claim that he wishes Canada to be the 51st state of the USA has to be taken seriously, but what it threatens is a new era of brutal, anti-democratic, imperialism. How are we going to react to that?