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Academics don't encourage Wikipedia, but students now use AI, which isn't doing a great job of representing ultra-realism. We've also been badly mispresented in some published articles, so we've set up a Wikipedia page as a corrective. Critical Criminology en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultra-rea…

I must congratulate this 'economist' and the commenters below for their guileless honesty. Whereas media shills tell us that 'markets are nervous' about fiscal spending, here we discover that it's actually the bond traders. People. Agents. When you understand the reality

Of course this is unerringly correct. But why do people keep on believing that their taxes pay for public spending and draining reserve accounts into government savings accounts is 'borrowing'? Media pumping out lies? Yes, but it doesn't explain why people believe them. The

The Digital Coliseum. Good conversation developing here on our new Ultra-Realist blog, in response to a very direct piece written by Masters student Mayra Barrera. And, no, 'coliseum' isn't a misspelling. ultrarealists.com/the-digital-co… Ultra Realists Critical Criminology British Criminology

Excellent blog post from Mayra Barrera on the 'digital coliseum'. Engaging and thoughtful analysis of online culture, social media and our eagerness to share emotion, pain and vulnerability as spectacle. ultrarealists.com/the-digital-co…

There’s a persistent myth that our government is somehow at the mercy of the financial markets and that it has to dance to their tune. This is most definitely doing the rounds this week, mainly as a result of Labour's mismanagement of its own party, and Rachel Reeves' subsequent

Wharton Prof at Cambridge takes The Economist seriously and can't see through the great historical scam of the bond market. All western nations are occupied territories - occupied by global, private money-market power. As well as the bond and FX markets, which, with the

Here we have a "25 yrs pro investor trader" who has no understanding of macroeconomic basics. Sustainable economic growth requires effective demand and investment in infrastructure and innovation. If private investors won't do it because the profit margins and revenue growth

Been working recently in public libraries run when I need a change of scene from working from home. Brilliant civic spaces. Free, calm, non-commercial, great for kids, and encourage engagement with and connection to your local community 1/2

Thomas Fazi on our kakistocracy - "government by the worst, the least qualified and the most unscrupulous". Who put these stupid minions in the driving seat? Corporations, financiers and oligarchs with the money-power to get exactly what suits them. unherd.com/2025/07/kaja-k…

Oh no, not 'deregulate and trickle down theory' again. Lawson deregulates the City bankers and we get Black Monday 1987, he deregulates further and we get Black Wednesday 1992, Brown deregulates and we get GFC 2008, Reeves deregulates and.... errr.... theguardian.com/business/2025/…

Never cease to be amazed at how logics of individualism/marketisation seep into everything. Even the military, the supposed opposite of individualism. Wars no longer fought by armies working in cohesive strategy, but by atomised units playing for points. bbc.com/news/articles/…

Sir John Cunliffe, who has just suggested that British water supplies should remain in private hands while customers are metered and charged 30% more, was once Deputy Governor of the Bank of England for Financial Stability. In other words, Cunliffe is a neoliberal who was planted

Across the West, ruling elites are dismantling democracy under the guise of defending it from supposed internal and external threats. But the real objective is clear: to help a desperate establishment maintain their grip on power. My latest: unherd.com/2025/07/how-we…

"Borrowing - the difference between public spending and tax income.... ". This is from BBC News (UK), our national broadcaster, to which we pay a license fee. It's complete crap. The government spends money into existence first by issuing currency from its central bank, either by

I feel like this book, which came out in 2023, didn’t get enough attention at the time. As the accelerating and poorly defined concept of “social harm” is embedded unthinkingly into law and policy across the U.K., it seems more timely than ever.

Christopher Lasch's Angry Ghost Thanks Ghost! For those interested, this book was about the deep historical roots underpinning the current deep incoherence around harm. Now writing a sequel with Anthony Lloyd which roots harm within a view of human flourishing that combines neuroscience and MacIntyrean ethics

Frum expresses the fundamental neoliberal belief in one sentence. They believe that markets are perfect allocation systems while elected politicians will always make a mess of it. This is not a rational empirically or theoretically sound claim - for instance, FDR rescued the US

There's a point at which elite naivete, unworldliness, and obliviousness to the way the world actually works become self-defeating. A doubling down on idealism and "how things should be" that opens the way for total corruption of those ideals and the wider social system.

Ethics Without Agents Corruption, Financial Crime, and the Interpassive 'Ethics' of Compliance academia.edu/115763607/Ethi… via Academia