Mark Langabeer (Hastings and Rye Labour member) watched the recent BBC1 Panorama broadcast (watch here). BBC reporter Ros Atkins asked why are there so many
Category: General Archive
By Michael Roberts Stock markets are jumping back up today. It seems that financial investors think the monetary authorities and banking supervisors have got the
[Editorial Note: although this is a much longer read than most Left Horizons articles, we are publishing here the full text of the report produced
By Andy Ford, Warrington South CLP The outbreak of school student protests across England and Wales in early this month shows the level of volatility
Hundreds of thousands of workers took strike action on Wednesday, Budget Day. Protesting against the relentless erosion of their living standards, strikers included rail workers,
By Michael Roberts As I write, US regional banks stock and bond prices are diving. And a major international Swiss bank, Credit Suisse, is close
By Michael Roberts Last week, US Fed Chair Jay Powell gave testimony to the US Congress on inflation and Fed monetary policy. He spooked financial
Letter from John Wake, Harlow Dear Editor, Harlow MP, Robert Halfon, ought to be ashamed of his endorsement of the aptly-named, Illegal Migration Bill. Aptly
By Sam Gleaden, Mental Health Worker They are casting their problems at society. And, you know, there’s no such thing as society. There are individual
By Michael Roberts On Friday, Californian bank Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) became the largest bank to fail since the 2008 financial crisis. In a sudden
