Funding the Future

Rachel Reeves will not fix Britain today.

So I’ve published my Alternative Budget for 2025 — a complete plan to end austerity, rebuild public services, reconnect savings with investment, reform the Treasury, bring the Bank of England back under democratic control, transform housing, and fund a green transition.

This video is a full guided tour through the ideas in the 20,000-word budget I’ve just released on Funding the Future.

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In this podcast, I talk with John Christensen, co-founder of the Tax Justice Network, about whether Britain can escape the final stage of a decades-long inflationary cycle without social and political rupture.

We explore Jersey as an early warning of the “finance curse,” the extraordinary scale of the housing shock, the generational wealth divide engineered by decades of rising house prices, and why younger people are locked out of...

Ultra-processed foods now make up at least half of all food sold in UK supermarkets. The Lancet has described them as a “corporate-engineered public health crisis.” That is exactly what they are: industrial products designed for profit, not nutrition. They override appetite control, promote over-consumption, and push out real food alternatives.

These foods are cheap because wages are low, access to fresh food is unequal, and corpor...

Politicians constantly claim that the government must “live within its means”, just like any family. In this video, I explain why the household analogy is not only wrong — it is the foundation of austerity, underfunded services, infrastructure decay, suppressed wages and collapsing public trust.

Governments create money. Households use money.

Governments must manage real resources, not bank balances.

And when governments cut spendi...

For forty years we were told that Britain didn’t need manufacturing — finance would make us rich. That experiment has failed. We import more than we export, our towns have been hollowed out, and our prosperity rests on hot money and property bubbles rather than productive capacity.

In this video, I explain why Britain’s industrial collapse was a political choice, how Thatcherism destroyed long-term investment, why Labour still wors...

Rachel Reeves is presenting a budget built on assumptions that simply cannot survive the world we are about to enter. Share prices are likely to fall sharply. A banking crisis may follow. Pension funds could be hit harder than at any time since 2008.

And the Chancellor? She has offered only cuts, caution and neoliberal wishful thinking.

In this video, I explain why her budget is unravelling before she even delivers it — and why gov...

Financial markets across the world are flashing red. The S&P 500 has finally turned down after weeks and even months of irrational optimism. The FTSE 100 is sliding. Gold is falling. Bitcoin and the broader crypto market are collapsing.

In this video, I explain why these signals point to an imminent crash – not next year, not in theory, but now. I explore why hype has replaced fundamentals, how AI-driven debt issuance has desta...

Why do accountants, economists, lawyers, medics, politicians and civil servants all resist the very changes the world needs?

In this video, I explain why top-tier professionals cling to failing systems, defend obsolete ideas, and punish those who challenge accepted wisdom. From currency debates to medical hierarchies, the professions close ranks to protect their status, not the public.

This is about fear, conformity, institutional ...

John Maynard Keynes said, “We can afford whatever we can do.” Few sentences in economics are more radical. In this video, I explain what he really meant — and why it matters more now than ever.

A currency-issuing government cannot run out of its own money. The true constraints on public action are people, skills, energy and materials — not a Treasury balance sheet. That means the key question is not “What can we afford?” but “What ...

Most people in the UK still believe in the power of royalty — and the power of the honours system. We accept that a knighthood is created from nothing with a tap of the King’s sword. Yet many refuse to accept that the government creates money in exactly the same way: by tapping a few keys on a keyboard.

In this video, I explain why knighthoods and money share the same foundations: state authority, public trust, and responsible stew...

Rachel Reeves plans to deliver a budget on 26 November — but how can she do that when the Labour government is falling apart? Cabinet briefings, internal plotting and collapsing confidence mean Labour has lost its coherence just when Britain needs leadership. A budget is a statement of belief and purpose. Right now, this government has neither.

In this video, I explain why Reeves’ commitment to Tory fiscal rules leaves her unable t...

Every day we’re told that Britain can’t afford the poor and that there isn’t enough money for care, housing or wages. But the truth is the opposite: it’s the poor who can’t afford the rich.

In this video, I explain how wealth extraction through interest, rent, and monopoly profit acts like three hidden taxes on us all. These “taxes of rentier capitalism” drain our pay, inflate our bills, and keep poverty in place.

What this makes c...

We’re told that the 1970s proved Keynesian economics failed, that inflation and unemployment could rise together, and only neoliberalism could fix it. But the truth is very different. External shocks, not excessive spending, drove that crisis. Governments panicked, misunderstood money, and abandoned Keynes when they needed him most.

In this video, I unpack what really caused stagflation — and why repeating those mistakes today risk...

The news is lying to you — and Britain is falling apart behind the scenes

Every night, the lights are bright, the headlines loud — but the real news is missing.

While the media fixates on Trump, Farage and the Royals, Britain’s children go hungry, families can’t afford homes, and carers are exhausted.

In this video, I explain how the theatre of distraction keeps us angry but uninformed — and why we must reclaim the news for the Pol...

Arthur Laffer’s “curve” is one of the most destructive ideas in modern economics.

Sketched on a napkin in the 1970s, it claimed that cutting tax rates could increase government revenue.

It became gospel for Reagan, Thatcher and every neoliberal government since.

But it was wrong.

In this video, I explain why Laffer misunderstood tax, ignored inequality, and helped unleash tax competition that undermined democracy.

I debated Laffer ...