Neoliberal indoctrination reigns supreme #RachelReeves theguardian.com/uk-news/live/2…

Scotland’s financial underworld isn’t all kilts and castles. We’ve followed the money from tax-avoiding billionaires to secret political donors — and now we’re digging into Scottish Limited Partnerships. Our next investigation drops tomorrow theferret.scot/the-money-trai…

For our member-funded Who Runs Scotland series we've taken a deep dive into PR and lobbying influence. We profiled five top PR firms. First is former MP Jim Murphy's Arden Strategies, where 19 staff have worked in politics. Clients include defence contractor Northrop Grumman.

We are pushing for a new 2% tax on wealth above £10m. How would it work in practice?

1. "Trump Is Unlikely to Call for a Devaluation of the US Dollar or for a Suppression of Workers' Wages MMT economist Dirk Ehnts writes, that to grow exports the two main strategies are: devalue your currency and/or drive down the costs of production.

It is always worth knowing what the powerful mean when they use terms like "the economy."

New on MMT101 SubStack: My MMT Top Ten: Modern Monetary Theory’s Best Ideas Explained Your guide to the most powerful insights from Modern Monetary Theory. What's your top ten? Tell me in the comments. tinyurl.com/3yprht65 #Economics

Without a doubt this is an enormously important report. We drag our heels in the face of climate change at our peril. Wake up Scottish Government

The Best Democracy Money Can Buy! Britain is a subsidiary of Black Rock

Keir Starmer and Blackrock are 'in partnership', along with 700 corporate lobbyists, who are being handed 'governance powers' with the UK Government taking a 'secondary position'. This is the libertarian dream come true, it has taken over 70 years to arrive. The UK is capital

The real 51st state: how the UK became America's vassal America is strip-mining us. US business extracts over a quarter of UK GDP: £22k per year per family. Their firms sack British workers, set our prices and run our biggest companies. We have no control heraldscotland.com/news/25153531.…

NCDs can't be addressed in isolation from social, economic and commercial determinants of health Neoliberal economic policies have contributed to the rise of NCDs the world over. We need strong regulation of transnational corporations to protect health #WHA78 World Health Organization (WHO) Medicus Mundi International Network

Yet another way in which our politicians have failed us - no sense of history and place This Is My Glasgow Glasgow City Council

We know from work on the Glasgow Effect that Glasgow was hollowed out by political decisions in the 70s and misguided attempts to make Glasgow a ‘world class city’ have merely compounded it Niall Murphy

1. Deficits are neither good nor bad MMT tells us that deficits (i.e. governments spend more than they bring in taxes and other income) are not inherently good or bad. For governments that issue their own currency it’s not the size of the deficit that is important, it is whether

Stealth funding to the Bank of England is appalling Rachel Reeves

I want a ruling party with a tax policy that addresses inequality. The focus on "proceeds" detracts from that. Its not about proceeds. Its about taking away underserved income, preventing the hoarding of property and managing the threat to democracy from excessive wealth.

This approach to the economy needs to be more widely known and campaigned for

My petition to the UK Government for full transparency on the impacts of 86 deregulated free zones across England, Scotland, and Wales has finally been approved. I urge people across the UK to sign and share this petition as widely as possible. This is hugely important for the

There’s a persistent myth that our government is somehow at the mercy of the financial markets and that it has to dance to their tune. This is most definitely doing the rounds this week, mainly as a result of Labour's mismanagement of its own party, and Rachel Reeves' subsequent