Keir Starmer delivers the leader’s speech at the annual Labour Party conference in Brighton on 29 September 2021. Is he Fabianism’s final hurrah? In January 1884, seven men and two women who were by the standards of the time dreamers…
Tag: Jeremy Corbyn
Labour and Conservatives debate the free market and the role of the state but there is no right answer
UK Prime Minister Teresa May delivered a speech in London on 27 September that called for greater support for the free market. It came the same day as UK Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn said a future Labour government would…
It’s capital not labour that should be controlled after Brexit
People should be free to move to improve their lives, but the practical objections are substantial. The majority live in countries with GDP per capita lower than the global average. In most, infrastructure and essential health and education services are…
Kellner and capitalism
In a piece published on 28 September in the weekly New Statesman magazine, YouGov president and former journalist Peter Kellner said the Labour Party is at a historic turning point due to the election of Jeremy Corbyn as its leader.…
Tax and intangible capital
Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn says increased spending on essential services and infrastructure could be financed by reducing the amount of tax avoidance and evasion, mainly by companies doing business in the UK. Blogger and tax expert Professor Richard Murphy argues…