Funding the Future

Every economy runs on light. That is not a metaphor – it is physics.

Without light, there is no life. Without life, there is no labour. Without labour, there is no economy. Yet modern economics behaves as if energy, health, and human limits do not matter.

In this Boxing Day video – part three of my Christmas series on light – I explain why labour is transformed solar energy, why burnout is an energy failure, why infinite growth on ...

At Christmas, cultures across the world speak of light returning. This is not theology or astronomy. It is about survival, hope, and responsibility in hard times.

In this video, I explore how wisdom traditions — Christian, Jewish, Buddhist, Islamic, and Indigenous — understand light as care, presence, and justice. And why modern capitalism inverts that meaning, treating wealth as light and poverty as darkness.

This is the Christmas...

This is the first in a six-video Christmas series exploring light not just as a festival symbol but as a political and economic necessity.

Light has always meant understanding, truth, and freedom. Darkness, by contrast, protects power and privilege.

In this video, I explore why learning is never neutral, why ignorance is often designed, and why economics that cannot be explained cannot be trusted. If democracy requires informed con...

As Christmas approaches, many people ask what they want.

But there is a more important question we should be asking: what did we need – and not get?

In this video, I look at the UK’s real economic failures over the last year:

• persistent poverty
• housing insecurity
• untreated illness
• a hidden personal debt crisis
• rising political hostility

These are not marginal problems. They are systemic failures of economic policy and po...

As Christmas approaches, I reflect on my word of the year: pleonexia — an ancient Greek term describing the insatiable desire to take more than your fair share, even when it harms others.

Once you understand pleonexia, you start to see it everywhere: in big tech, in bond markets, in tax avoidance, and in government policy that treats human suffering as an accounting inconvenience. This video argues that much of what we excuse or de...

The push for wealth taxes has been one of the defining economic debates of 2025. The question now is whether we want policies that work.

In this video, I argue that the fastest, fairest way to tax wealth is through higher taxes on the income, gains and transfers that wealth generates — not through complex and slow-to-deliver wealth taxes.

This approach raises more revenue, strengthens compliance, exposes hidden wealth, and keeps op...

Christmas is economically strange. We stop working. Spending surges. Profit stops mattering. Time off is normalised. Family and care come first.

And we accept all of this without question.

That should make us pause. Because if we can suspend the rules of economics at Christmas, then those rules were never inevitable in the first place.

This video is not about religion or ritual. It is about what the Christmas season reveals about o...

Is the NHS really in crisis because of money — or because we are asking the wrong question altogether?

In this video, I argue that the central failure of the NHS is not underfunding alone, but the way illness itself has been turned into a consumer product. Chronic conditions now dominate healthcare, patient demand has exploded, and pharmaceutical profits shape treatment pathways, often at the expense of prevention, patient agency, ...

Is tax theft? Many people think so — and that belief shapes how we vote, how we treat public services, and how democracy functions.

In this video, I explain why the popular claim “it’s my money, why should the government take it?” is based on a fundamental mistake. Income does not exist before the state. Jobs, wages, money, contracts, and property rights all depend on government systems that come first.

Tax is not punishment. It is...

Most people think that economics is about money, that government spending is constrained by tax, and that public services must always come second to “balancing the books”.

All of that is wrong.

In this video, I explain why money is not scarce, why governments create it, and why treating money as the central economic constraint has led to unemployment, inequality, wasted lives and environmental damage.

Economics is not about money.

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Inequality is not an accident. It is not natural. And it is not inevitable.

According to the United Nations’ World Inequality Report, inequality results from deliberate political and institutional choices. This video explains what that means for the UK – and why extreme concentrations of wealth now threaten democracy, climate stability, and social cohesion.

I examine the evidence behind the report, the role Britain has played in de...

For 50 years, Western politics has rested on a single promise: growth.

But what if that promise can no longer be kept?

In this video, I ask a question almost no politician dares to face: what happens to democracy when growth flatlines permanently? I explore stagnant wages, finance-driven “growth”, asset bubbles, pensions, public services, and the political risks of a collapsing economic myth.

If growth cannot return, we must change...

Chief executives in the UK and the US are now paid hundreds of times more than the people who actually create value in their companies. This is not innovation or entrepreneurship – it is extraction.

In this video, I explain why extreme executive pay is a driver of inequality, weak productivity, falling morale, and political corruption. I also show how tax can be used not to raise revenue, but to change behaviour – by making excessi...

Has Donald Trump effectively declared war on Europe? His recent statements suggest exactly that.

In this video, I explore how Trump’s racist rhetoric, his support for far-right parties, and his attacks on migrants are being used to divide Europe at the very moment inequality and social pressures are rising.

Migration is not destroying Europe. Racism is.

And when racism is normalised, democracy crumbles.

This is the defining politic...

Most people believe the national debt is a danger to our economy. In this video, I explain why that story is wrong. National debt isn’t a burden; it is our money supply. Every pound, dollar, euro or yen in circulation exists because governments run deficits that create the currency we all use.

So if every country is in debt, who owns it? The answer is revealing. More than 80% of global government debt is privately owned — and large...

Too many campaigners talk about what’s wrong, but never explain what must change or how it could happen.

Real campaigning means finding solutions: identifying causes, proposing reforms, and then doing the maths on the finances to show how they would work in practice.

In this video, I explain what effective campaigning looks like, why technical detail matters, and why those who want real social and economic justice must deal with fu...

People feel politics has nothing to do with them — and they’re right to feel ignored. In this video, I explain why our democracy is failing, why so many feel powerless, and how we can put people back in charge. From proportional representation to revived local democracy and citizens’ assemblies, this is a practical plan to rebuild trust and participation.

If you believe politics should serve the public, not the powerful, this is th...