In a recent YouGov survey, 36% of respondents expressed a favourable, and 32% an unfavourable opinion of socialism. Capitalism, meanwhile, … Continue reading “Socialism: It’s always the real thing. Until it’s not.”

Jeremy Corbyn’s BBC interview with Andrew Neil last week caught the headlines for its discussion of the Labour leader’s views … Continue reading “What Jeremy Corbyn doesn’t know about government debt”

“The dividing lines in this election could not be clearer from the outset … it is the establishment versus the … Continue reading “The Corbynistas are wrong: there’s no such thing as ‘The People’”

After a false start (when only 18 promises actually made it online), Labour has revealed a 20-point plan to ‘improve … Continue reading “Labour’s 20-point plan – the good, the bad and the downright ugly”

Jeremy Corbyn has just announced a £25 billion a year tax cut for high earners. Admittedly he didn’t announce it … Continue reading “The fiscal implications of Corbyn’s ‘maximum wage’”

The Fabian Society’s latest report, which paints a doom-and-gloom picture of Labour’s chances at the next election, seems to have … Continue reading “Free-marketeers have failed to convince the public”

I’ve got an idea for an alternative history novel, an alternate timeline in which the fall of the Berlin Wall … Continue reading “An alternative history: what ‘democratic socialism’ would have looked like”

Jeremy Corbyn’s Labour Party has a new economic committee, made up of high-profile names such as Danny Blanchflower, Simon Wren-Lewis, … Continue reading “If this is the new ‘mainstream economics’, God help us”

“Nobody advocates socialism anymore. It is now all just about reforming capitalism.” I must have heard this lazy cliché in … Continue reading “Attacks on Corbyn are a distraction – it is Corbynomics that needs tackling”