Benjamin Clark

The next few years will feature so, so SO many columns and Substacks by people claiming that things were going well and Labour just needed to 'stick with Morgan's plan'.

Happy workers are more productive, right? The case for a four-day week The pandemic has shown us more clearly than ever that we're all working too hard. But reducing work hours has its pros and cons.

I have written many times on increasing annual leave (it’s something of a hobbyhorse)…

but also adding public holidays and limiting employers’ ability to determine when employees take their leave. Hope to see these ideas taken into account too.

E.g. www.crikey.com.au/2022/01/25/t...

Unions demand Albanese hand every worker 25 per cent more holidays An extra week of paid annual leave to compensate for unpaid overtime would be the first increase to the entitlement since the 1970s.

Australian unions are pushing for an extra week of annual leave:
www.smh.com.au/business/wor...

In the UK, I get five weeks of leave already. Seems like a no-brainer

I thought it better than usual. Tho not sure about this one

I’m back in @crikey.com.au today, covering the Manchester byelection. It’s usually folly to draw international lessons from local elections… but I think this one might be an exception to the rule…

The PM response to Gorton & Denton has been to castigate the Greens as the mirror image of Reform — extremists who “want to tear our country apart”

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Epstein’s ‘access peddling’ Plus: the Gorton and Denton byelection

In today’s Lightbulb, Prospect’s free daily newsletter, Peter Geoghegan discusses the latest Epstein files drop. Plus: the latest on the Gorton and Denton byelection.

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Gabriel Zucman: We need a wealth tax for the super-rich The rockstar economist on the ‘Zucman tax’—and why the UK needs one

Interesting to hear frm @gabrielzucman.bsky.social on prospects for taxing assets in France/US/UK

+ bonus unsettling tale of Harvard dangling a job in front of the scourge of Big Wealth -- and then changing its mind

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🎥: France’s richest man came after him for advocating a wealth tax. On this bonus episode of the Prospect Podcast, Benjamin Clark speaks to economist Gabriel Zucman

Gabriel Zucman v the mega-rich | The Prospect Podcast The rockstar economist explains his proposal for a wealth tax

🎥: On this bonus episode of the Prospect Podcast, Gabriel Zucman speaks to Benjamin Clark about his proposal for a wealth tax, being publicly criticised by the richest man in France—and how living in America radicalised him.

What does Iran’s future hold? Plus: What to do if Trump invades Greenland

In today’s Lightbulb, Prospect’s free daily newsletter, we consider what the future might hold for Iran. Plus: What should the UK do is Trump invades Greenland? Benjamin Clark brings you the latest.

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Yanis Varoufakis and the women who inspired his politics Greece’s former finance minister on writing a feminist history—and how to beat fascism

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Lily Allen ft. MC Mamdani Plus: there is a loooooooong time until the next UK general election

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yea agreed. where I disagree with the govt approach is they are raising taxes (good) but not even enough to just meet existing obligations, hence austerity lite. they might as well raise taxes by more, they’re already going to get crucified by the press yet only get a little extra revenue

whereas Albo refuses to meaningfully raise taxes and thus chooses low-spend low-impact policies, Starmer is raising taxes but spending it in the least visible ways possible while simultaneously doing austerity lite, so most ppl are like “what did I get for those taxes?” Worst of all worlds

Yanis Varoufakis on resisting fascism—in the US, UK, Russia and Ukraine Plus: Yanis weighs in on Starmer’s crackdown on protesters and Mamdani’s campaign

🎥: On this week’s episode of the Prospect Podcast, @yanisvaroufakis.bsky.social joins @benjamin-clark.bsky.social to discuss his new book on resistance. They cover Mamdani’s campaign, Starmer’s crackdown on protesters—and disagree over how to understand the war in Ukraine.