I am seriously concerned by talk of 11% cuts to services to fund increased defence spending. It will kill and impoverish people here, and I’m far from convinced it will do much good elsewhere. I don’t think I’m alone or that this makes me a fool or a putin lover etc?

🚨 BREAKING 🚨 Lloyds Bank just announced profits of £6bn, taking the total profits of Britain's 'Big Four' banks to a *record* £45.9bn for 2024. We've worked out that a windfall tax on those profits could bring in £14.7bn to the Treasury 👉 positivemoney.org/press-release/…

This is not how military spending works. I’ll explain below. In 2023/24, the Ministry of Defence spent £37.6 billion on equipment – nearly 40% of this went to just 10 companies.

Excited to have joined the University of Manchester's Law and Technology Initiative as a Visiting Research Fellow. Looking forward to building the future of public money with John D Haskell and the very talented fellows I am lucky to be working with law-tech.manchester.ac.uk/research/visit…

Great news for those local mom-and-pop arms manufacturers that were once the beating heart of the high street

The return of 'moral suasion'? ft.com/content/b3a1ea…

Trump’s tariffs beckon a new order: trade war, Cold War, hot war. Read Melanie Brusseler and Khem Rogaly on the dangers of the tariff agenda, the need for class war in American politics and the volatile implications of unmasked American dominance. common-wealth.org/perspectives/b…

⚡ LIVE ⚡ From Westminster Cybersalon's event "Towards a new global monetary system" kicks off! After an introduction from John McDonnell, our Simon Youel will be discussing the shift away from dollar dominance with Radhika Desai, Wessel van Rensburg & Richard Barbrook 🧵

Really interesting read touching on many of the issues we discussed yesterday evening at Cybersalon's event with Richard Barbrook Simon Youel Radhika Desai and Wessel van Rensburg. If you're looking to learn more about waning dollar dominance then this is well worth a read.

The Planning & Infrastructure Bill slashes so-called red tape - stripping back democracy & environmental protections. It lets developers off the hook for delaying builds to maximise profits. We need a left alternative - mass council housebuilding & getting tough on developers.

Damn, they actually did it, they actually made it illegal to hold your MP to account: bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

It's great that the City of London corporation has a multi-billion pound warchest it can spend on lobbying, but seemingly nothing to spend on bins

Bizarre that Reform are the only national party raising this - it’s an absolute fortune we are paying to banks now, c.£130bn over next five years!

This clip is the essence of Starmer, a man who said he doesn’t have a favourite book, and doesn’t dream. Walking aimlessly through a dark, seemingly empty house, rubber-stamping contracts some shady multinational has written for him, trying to project Seriousness and Importance.

Ppl are drinking orange wine and eating small plates in what used to be know as murder mile.

£80bn annually is serious, potentially transformative money. (Remember Corbyn promised £50bn/yr for infrastructure/industrial investment distributed through regional investment banks — it was called “mad”, “communist”, “unaffordable”.) But while BIG MoD spending on rearmament

Maintaining PIP: £5bn 138 F35s: £12bn Trying to convince Trump there is a Special Relationship: priceless ft.com/content/1b7793…

Great that Britain's paper of record quoted an ETF broker suggesting that investors can shun sovereign debt for "less risky" corporate debt, in their coverage of yesterday's events. Is this some kind of freaky new sponsored content?