August 2025 – Mike Haynes – The Jobbing Leftie Historian and Researcher
2 posts published by thejobbingleftiehistorianandresearcher during August 2025| Mike Haynes - The Jobbing Leftie Historian and Researcher
2 posts published by thejobbingleftiehistorianandresearcher during August 2025| Mike Haynes - The Jobbing Leftie Historian and Researcher
Disillusion with conventional politics is widespread in most countries including the UK. Few people, however, were prepared for the size of the response when Zarah Sultana and Jeremy Corbyn announced in the late spring of 2025 that they were going to create a new left party. With days hundreds of thousands had signed up to a […]| Mike Haynes – The Jobbing Leftie Historian and Researcher
Mass political parties developed in the second half of the nineteenth century as the right to vote was extended. Earlier political parties were loose coalitions at the top. Now they needed to deve…| Mike Haynes - The Jobbing Leftie Historian and Researcher
Prices change all the time. They change for two reasons. They change against one another – what are called relative price changes. And they change on average. If prices rise on average we have inflation. If they fall on average we have deflation. Since 1945 we have lived in an inflationary era but before then, for […]| Mike Haynes – The Jobbing Leftie Historian and Researcher
The aim of this blog is to set out the different elements that allow us to understand how secure or vulnerable people are in the labour market – especially in the UK. 1. The Labour Force Participation Rate The labour force participation rate is the ratio of the total labour force to the total working-age population. The working age […]| Mike Haynes – The Jobbing Leftie Historian and Researcher
I have borrowed this idea from Danny Dorling (in his Shattered Nation, 2023) and used the easily accessible data on the Our World in Data website to show how the UK has fallen in the global health …| Mike Haynes - The Jobbing Leftie Historian and Researcher
When people lived on the breadline if the price of bread rose then they often rioted. By and large people today do not riot in rich countries in response to rising …| Mike Haynes - The Jobbing Leftie Historian and Researcher
Some people call it ‘sane-ification’ – trying to make sense of the ‘madness’ of Donald Trump. Calling someone mad doesn’t really help. So let us try, for the sake of argument, to make a case explaining Trump’s approach to tariffs. WHY BEING TOP DOG MATTERS The USA is the most powerful country in the world. Its power rests […]| Mike Haynes – The Jobbing Leftie Historian and Researcher
In 2024, after more than a decade of Tory rule and a succession of discredited and incompetent governments, UK Labour won a general election with a commanding parliamentary majority. But it got just 33.7% of the vote on one of the lowest turnouts in recent history. The big victory was a product of the UK’s first past […]| Mike Haynes – The Jobbing Leftie Historian and Researcher
Why have unions declined so much in most advanced countries and why is the level of strikes so low? The left sees society as structured by class conflict. This finds its sharpest expression in the workplace where employers and workers come into conflict. To strengthen their position workers create trade unions and when negotiation fails, […]| Mike Haynes – The Jobbing Leftie Historian and Researcher
We are all going to die. Human life has a 100% mortality rate. So wrote Johan Giesecke in this short article in 1992. After Anders Tengell, Giesecke – whose book on Modern Infectiou…| Mike Haynes - The Jobbing Leftie Historian and Researcher
