On 17th November, the UK’s Chancellor of the Exchequer Jeremy Hunt announced some long-expected bad news for the country. In order to fill a supposed £50 billion hole in the government’s finances, Hunt pledged a raft of tax rises and spending cuts. While the Chancellor promised that health and education…

2022 is a year that will undoubtedly be remembered as one in which the price of almost everything rose quite rapidly. Across much of the world, the rate of inflation has reached forty year highs and shows no sign of abating. The main cause of the rapidly rising prices has…

There is a tree in my garden. At the end of every summer it receives a thorough pruning to prevent the autumn leaves from falling onto the small vegetable patch underneath. Once the rest of the leaves drop, the tree remains bare until the spring. This autumn, something unusual occurred…

Like a posse of deranged clowns stubbornly clinging to some lead balloons in the Mariana trench, the Conservative Party remains ever committed to its unrelenting quest to hit rock bottom. Somehow, the perpetual political crisis that has gripped the United Kingdom since its ill-fated Brexit vote keeps getting ever more…

Liz Truss is Britain’s new Prime Minister and while there is an air of unpredictability about how she intends to govern, it appears probable that her government could very well be facing increased industrial conflict and perhaps even the outbreak of social unrest. Truss has signaled her intention to tear…

The United Kingdom — via the malignant core at the heart of its body politic, the Conservative Party — is once more engaged in a contest to pick the latest in a long line of hapless and/or heartless leaders. The decision as to who will be the UK's next Prime…

Inflation is hitting highs not seen in a generation. Millions of people are struggling to afford the basic necessities required for survival. Stock markets are having their worst year in half a century. Economists warn of a looming recession. Capitalism, my friends, is once more in crisis mode. There is…

Last month, workers from the British transport trade union, the RMT, went on strike over wages, conditions, job security and what RMT General Secretary Mick Lynch described as the “transport austerity” of job cuts and inadequate pay. The Sun newspaper, harking back to the Arthur Scargill led miner strikes of…

In 2010, Jimmy McMillan — a Vietnam War veteran, former postal worker, and an all-round eccentric — sought election to the office of Governor in New York. He had one simple slogan: “The Rent is Too Damn High”. …