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…
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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…
Finkelstein and capitalism
In an article published by The Times earlier this month, Conservative Party supporter Daniel Finkelstein argued “There is no alternative to capitalism, comrade.” It echoed the point made previously by Peter Kellner, a Labour Party supporter, in The New Statesman.…
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.…
Intangible capital is the reason for corporate tax avoidance, not tax havens
UK Labour Party leader Ed Miliband said yesterday that he had written to the leaders of 10 British overseas territories and crown dependencies to say that a Labour government would press for them to be put on an OECD tax haven blacklist…