YouTube video by Richard J Murphy Why do we still have poverty in UK?

Why does poverty still exist in one of the richest countries on earth? In this video, I explain how antisocial neoliberal economics deliberately creates poverty.
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Europe’s water reserves are drying up because of climate change www.theguardian.com/environment/...

someday a real Black Friday will come and wash all the scum off the streets

One in 10 UK parents say their child has been blackmailed online, NSPCC finds Harms include threats to release intimate pictures as charity warns against parents sharing photos or details of children online Nearly one in 10 UK parents say their child has been blackmailed online, with harms ranging from threatening to release intimate pictures to revealing details about someone’s personal life. The NSPCC child protection charity also found that one in five parents know a child who has experienced online blackmail, while two in five said they rarely or never talked to their children about the subject. Continue reading...

One in 10 UK parents say their child has been blackmailed online, NSPCC finds

YouTube video by Richard J Murphy How ultra-processed food became a corporate-engineered health crisis

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.”

We can change this — but only if we confront corporate power.

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Australia has been key in undermining COP from the very start

Australia has more than played its part in undermining COP climate change summits over the years, @theshufflediary.bsky.social writes.

The President of the United States just called for my arrest and execution.

In these moments, fear is contagious, but so is courage:

YouTube video by Richard J Murphy The magic money sword: Why money works like honours

Most people in the UK still believe in the power of royalty. And 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. youtu.be/Nt-_qzKRI2Y?...

...by which I mean, post links to texts as well, probably a lot of people like the videos, but definitely not all.

Please post blog posts or transcripts. I ain't watching YT.

Bill Gates Gave $3.5M to Think Tank Run by Climate Crisis Denier Bjorn Lomborg Tax records reveal that the billionaire’s foundation has donated for years to Lomborg’s Copenhagen Consensus Center.

Hey look, Gates didn’t just hobnob with Lomborg, he funded Lomborg for years. Nobody should take Bill Gates seriously on climate change. www.desmog.com/2025/11/05/b...

The tipping point? I suggested yesterday that one reason why Rachel Reeves might have made her speech yesterday was that she wanted to speak before a market crash hit the economy, setting the scene as a result of a Budg...

The tipping point? www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/11... Japanese and South Korean stock markets fell heavily overnight. Is the crash starting?

YouTube video by Richard J Murphy Why is it that the rich always seem to win?

Why is it that the rich always seem to win? youtu.be/KKwCTaUQ5gM?... In this video, I unpack how political choices and not economic laws have made wealth compound and wages stagnate, and what we can do to reverse it.

YouTube video by Richard J Murphy If you didn’t know who you’d be, would you design this society?

If you didn’t know who you’d be, would you design this society? youtu.be/fPAMQer1K8I?... If not, why put up with it?

It was a collapse that stunned many — so what went wrong for RCR Tomlinson? For 120 years, it was a successful mining engineering business, riding the highs and lows. But an aggressive move into a new form of technology, the solar industry, burned RCR Tomlinson and left it in...

Not curtailment but Australian utility scale solar has a lot more problems than anti- renewable activity. Most notably scarce points at which you can inject that much power into an aging grid. Big companies getting in and out of solar for a long time. www.abc.net.au/news/2018-11... and others

Yeah Australia is like her fantasy too. They have all the packing things you need, Phys a lot of gift type items that are always strangely cool. And you can deposit money and do basic banking there too.

Hurricane Melissa could be Jamaica's most powerful storm in history “There is nowhere that will escape the wrath of this storm,” said Evan Thompson of Jamaica’s Meteorological Service. Melissa is already blamed for four deaths.

Praying for the Jamaican people tonight.

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People are saying that symbols don't matter, actions do. Well, they do matter, and this is both.

YouTube video by Richard J Murphy Trump is marching on the East

Trump is demolishing the East Wing of the White House to build a privately funded $300 million ballroom. This is a hostile takeover of one of democracy’s most symbolic buildings, and when money rebuilds power, citizens lose it. youtu.be/7Rc54skqD_Y?...

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Why does everyone keep calling it “The Epstein Ballroom?” Please stop repeating “The Epstein Ballroom” because it is not called “The Epstein Ballroom!” Don’t tell the news that it’s called “The Epstein Ballroom” and please don’t repost this!!!!!

The great British energy rip-off is now killing our green energy hopes – and the chance of cheaper electricity As the Guardian reported last night: Ministers are considering dropping one of their central green pledges in an effort to keep energy bills down, sources have told the Guardian. Government insiders say Keir Starmer is prepared to miss his own target of removing almost all fossil fuels from the UK’s electricity supply...

The great British energy rip-off is now killing our green energy hopes – and the chance of cheaper electricity www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/10...

And let’s not forget the tyrant is Putin, the leader Farage admires most.

Rule of thumb, Premier Allan—

If the ACL is against you, you're on the right track.

#auspol #springst

It is the symbol-minded to which I refer.

You have a point but to be fair, that building is one of the most significant symbols in the world, for better or worse. And symbols matter, as we've seen time and time again.

It's also a problem that it seems like the EU has no choice but to significantly increase military spending.