Richard Murphy

Farage is building a care home for failed Tories. It's the weirdest political project ever.

YouTube video by Richard J Murphy Why America, China and Russia are all built on the same fatal flaw

Why America, China and Russia are all built on the same fatal flaw youtu.be/NJM_9Pw_zxI?...

If the state can kill an observer and then lie about it, the question is not just who is safe, but who is believed. After a week when Trump shocked the world, events in Minneapolis brought the focus right back to the USA. The most disturbing part of the killing of Alex Pretti in that city yesterday is not what happ...

If the state can kill an observer and then lie about it, the question is not just who is safe, but who is believed. www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2026/01...

YouTube video by Richard J Murphy Neoliberalism is dying: Mark Carney’s Davos speech confirmed it

Neoliberalism is dying: Mark Carney’s Davos speech confirmed it youtu.be/AMTQNI3BV90?... What's next?

YouTube video by Richard J Murphy Trump didn’t shock me. Nato’s failure did

Trump didn’t shock me. Nato’s failure did youtu.be/ZjVSGpEBt1M?... Reflections on a week.

The new world we need is going to be messy – and that will be the foundation of its strength I am tired. Specifically, I am tired of Trump. I am tired of the confusion that he is creating. I am tired of the chaos that he is leaving in his wake. I am tired of the uncertainty that is harming pe...

The new world we need is going to be messy – and that will be the foundation of its strength www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2026/01...

What to think now of Burnham? There is talk again that Andy Burnham might return to Westminster. A byelection in Manchester opens the possibility, and if he does, there will be plenty of cynical commentary. Some will say he is si...

What to think now of Burnham? www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2026/01...

That is one mightily effective party political broadcast, and it really is not often I have ever been able to say that after a lifetime watching them.

The most effective political communicator the UK has seen in a generation. Is @zackpolanski.bsky.social the right person at the right time? TBC. But he has tapped into the need for hope and as @richardjmurphy.bsky.social likes to say, the need for a new song.

If you want to know why we need to consign the heinous thinking of neoliberals to history, note this from the FT on Trump's plan to redevelop Gaza, this afternoon. Do Palestinian's feature? Not once...

The necessary post-Trump consensus Another day, and more madness from Trump. What else can I say about his Davos appearance yesterday? Fools appear to be celebrating that he had backed off military action, as if his word might be reli...

The necessary post-Trump consensus www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2026/01...

YouTube video by Richard J Murphy Trump's Chaos Is Triggering Market Collapse

Trump's Chaos Is Triggering Market Collapse youtu.be/o1txFAMM4FY?...

2026 looks as if it will be a brutal year As the FT notes this morning: The governor of the Bank of England has warned there are “substantial risks” of spillovers to UK financial markets from Donald Trump’s attacks on the independence of the ...

2026 looks as if it will be a brutal year www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2026/01...

YouTube video by Richard J Murphy NATO's over – Europe must grow up now

NATO's over – Europe must grow up now youtu.be/bJB11QDs-zc?...

Yesterday, Danish troops, who stood shoulder to shoulder with U.S. troops in Afghanistan from 2001 to 2021, arrived in Greenland to defend the island from the United States of America. Think about that. The world is in a mess so great it's hard to comprehend.

Bruce Springsteen: “ICE should get the fuck out of Minneapolis.”

YouTube video by Richard J Murphy Are we fighting evil when we take on President Trump?

Are we fighting evil when we take on President Trump? youtu.be/DwoIrxZn47I?...

Keir Starmer says he does not think Trump will use force to take Greenland.

I think Starmer has exceptionally poor judgment.

Did anyone else note that Starmer says he spoke to Trump yesterday and said he welcomed the role he is playing in Gaza?

Pardon? What? He welcomes the post genocidal rebuidling of Gaza as a playground for the rich? Either Starmer is a fool, or he is very dangerous. He might, of course, be both.

Richard Murphy: There’s a powerful message within Shona Robison’s Budget IT is very easy to look at Shona Robison’s Budget announcements last week and conclude that, in the strict sense, they are not very significant

Richard Murphy: There’s a powerful message within Shona Robison’s Budget www.thenational.scot/politics/257...

Speaker Mike Johnson of the US House of Representatives is meant to address Parliament here in London tomorrow as a representative of the US government. Really? Now? When the US is threatening war against NATO? Suely Starner must cancel this?

Will a US Treasury sell off work? I was asked this question on the blog yesterday: Would a mass sell off of US Treasuries by EU and others put pressure back on Trump and his Congress? Since it is doing the social media rounds, I gave ...

Will a US Treasury sell-off work? www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2026/01... The answer is, probably not.

YouTube video by Richard J Murphy Don't ask, when are we going to do MMT? We already are

Don't ask, when are we going to do MMT? We already are youtu.be/J6ZUJbl829E?...

Yes. Definitely.

Do we succumb to the politics of might, or choose the politics of care? It would be terribly convenient to suggest that Donald Trump is mad; that his breaches of international law can be ignored; that his threats of imposing tariffs on countries including the UK, so that ...

Do we succumb to the politics of might, or choose the politics of care? That's the challenge the world faces now. www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2026/01...

Can Europe rise to the US challenge? Recent statements by Trump’s regime in the USA concerning territorial claims on Greenland, backed now with threats of tariffs on all states that object to his plan that this country, which is the sove...

Can Europe rise to the US challenge? www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2026/01...

A buzzard on a post at Welney in Norfolk.

This buzzard sat no more than six metres from us for more than five minutes whilst we watched it from the stationary car on the way to WWT Welney yesterday. A great bird, happily hunting for worms on the bank behind it.

YouTube video by Richard J Murphy GDP doesn’t explain life expectancy, but care does

GDP doesn’t explain life expectancy, but care does youtu.be/aJ99dXXROvU?...

That is mightily simplistic. Recession is possible right now for all sorts of reasons but the action he proposes - if possible - would hurt us at least as hard as the US. It’s very naive to pretend otherwise.

As far as I can tell, we don’t give up on criminal law because some people break it. So, why do countries seem to be giving up on international law because the USA, Israel and other are choosing to break it? Isn’t this the exact moment when we need it most?