The Kinds of Metaphor
Structural, orientational, ontological — the toolkit for reading the frames that govern economic thought.
The Manufacture of a Crisis
For a century Britain’s immigration panic ran through a biased but VISIBLE press — and an open society kept pushing the fever back down. Then, around 2016, the feed became a black box: the bias went from contestable to hidden, and the ceiling that used to contain the far right disappeared.
Andy, Bring Back HS2 — and Don't PFI It
Rishi Sunak cancelled the North's railway on a fallacy, then dressed the wreckage up as 'Network North'. The money was always there. The only real questions are whether the railway is worth building — and who gets to own it.
Can Britain Run Out of Money?
Britain is told every Budget that it must 'live within its means', like a household. But that idea has authors and a date — and a country that issues its own currency cannot go bust. How sound money became dogma, how the UK really borrows, why the markets still bite, and why Japan carries double…
What Europe Is Saying About Britain
France, Spain, Germany and Portugal all watched Andy Burnham rise and Keir Starmer cling on — and each saw a different Britain. A tour of the same story in four mirrors.
Josh Simons and the Laundered Machine
He fronted a covert, dark-money political operation, helped drag Labour onto Faragist ground, and was copied into the surveillance of journalists reporting on it. Now he has cleared the path to Parliament for Andy Burnham and is heading back toward power — and almost no one is asking how.
Too Big to Fail: The Outsourced State
How outsourcing core state functions to Serco, Carillion and G4S produced fraud, collapse and vanished accountability — and where it began.
James Bond and the Politics of Whiteness
Idris Elba was “too street” to play Bond, they said — too far from how he was written. But Bond has no original: remade every era, his racist novels quietly edited, his canon now authored by a video game. In a character who could be anyone, the one thing held sacred is that he stays white. That…
The Week Labour Cracked Open
How a backloaded defence settlement became a full leadership crisis — and what's circling the wreckage.