Grace Blakeley
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I write about capitalism - about the economic and political systems that dominate our lives, and how we can resist!
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This Christmas, Don’t Talk about Politics • Why arguing with your family about politics won’t change their minds — and what actually will
This Christmas, Don’t Talk about Politics
Why arguing with your family about politics won’t change their minds — and what actually will
graceblakeley.substack.com
December 22, 2025 at 4:29 PM
This Christmas, Don’t Talk about Politics • Why arguing with your family about politics won’t change their minds — and what actually will
The Roundup #10 • The private equity wealth extraction machine, bad new for US unemployment, and more AI bubble jitters...
The Roundup #10
The private equity wealth extraction machine, bad new for US unemployment, and more AI bubble jitters...
graceblakeley.substack.com
December 20, 2025 at 1:27 PM
The Roundup #10 • The private equity wealth extraction machine, bad new for US unemployment, and more AI bubble jitters...
What I read this week • Unemployment, housing, and the usual warnings about bubbles...
What I read this week
Unemployment, housing, and the usual warnings about bubbles...
graceblakeley.substack.com
December 19, 2025 at 4:28 PM
What I read this week • Unemployment, housing, and the usual warnings about bubbles...
Parasiti-capitalism: How Investors Drain Companies and Call It Growth • How modern capital captures control, drains cash flow, and leaves economies weaker.
Parasiti-capitalism: How Investors Drain Companies and Call It Growth
How modern capital captures control, drains cash flow, and leaves economies weaker.
graceblakeley.substack.com
December 15, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Parasiti-capitalism: How Investors Drain Companies and Call It Growth • How modern capital captures control, drains cash flow, and leaves economies weaker.
The Roundup #9 • The war on young people; a fight for fair pay; and delinking the rich world from the poor world.
The Roundup #9
The war on young people; a fight for fair pay; and delinking the rich world from the poor world.
graceblakeley.substack.com
December 12, 2025 at 7:32 PM
The Roundup #9 • The war on young people; a fight for fair pay; and delinking the rich world from the poor world.
What I read this week: Delinking • What might the global economy look like were the poor world to 'delink' from the rich world?
What I read this week: Delinking
What might the global economy look like were the poor world to 'delink' from the rich world?
graceblakeley.substack.com
December 12, 2025 at 7:32 PM
What I read this week: Delinking • What might the global economy look like were the poor world to 'delink' from the rich world?
“You Should Be Honoured to Work Here”: British Library Staff are Striking for Pay, Conditions, and Respect • A battle over pay has become a fight over who Britain's cultural institutions are really for.
“You Should Be Honoured to Work Here”: British Library Staff are Striking for Pay, Conditions, and Respect
A battle over pay has become a fight over who Britain's cultural institutions are really for.
graceblakeley.substack.com
December 11, 2025 at 1:29 PM
“You Should Be Honoured to Work Here”: British Library Staff are Striking for Pay, Conditions, and Respect • A battle over pay has become a fight over who Britain's cultural institutions are really for.
Generation Despair • Work doesn’t pay, housing is out of reach, and life has been enshittified — why should young people keep propping up a system rigged against them?
Generation Despair
Work doesn’t pay, housing is out of reach, and life has been enshittified — why should young people keep propping up a system rigged against them?
graceblakeley.substack.com
December 8, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Generation Despair • Work doesn’t pay, housing is out of reach, and life has been enshittified — why should young people keep propping up a system rigged against them?
The Roundup #8 • MMT, community power, and the AI bubble
The Roundup #8
MMT, community power, and the AI bubble
graceblakeley.substack.com
December 5, 2025 at 7:30 PM
The Roundup #8 • MMT, community power, and the AI bubble
What I Read this Week: The AI bubble (again) • There's too much debt, and not enough end demand.
What I Read this Week: The AI bubble (again)
There's too much debt, and not enough end demand.
graceblakeley.substack.com
December 5, 2025 at 4:30 PM
What I Read this Week: The AI bubble (again) • There's too much debt, and not enough end demand.
Locals built the landscape. Now, they want a stake in its future. • In the slate valleys of north Wales, a group of community organisers, councillors and researchers are taking on one of the region’s most powerful companies – and taking back control of their place.
Locals built the landscape. Now, they want a stake in its future.
In the slate valleys of north Wales, a group of community organisers, councillors and researchers are taking on one of the region’s most powerful companies – and taking back control of their place.
graceblakeley.substack.com
December 3, 2025 at 1:32 PM
Locals built the landscape. Now, they want a stake in its future. • In the slate valleys of north Wales, a group of community organisers, councillors and researchers are taking on one of the region’s most powerful companies – and taking back control of their place.
On MMT • Does the left want paternalistic technocracy, or democratic socialism?
On MMT
Does the left want paternalistic technocracy, or democratic socialism?
graceblakeley.substack.com
December 1, 2025 at 1:29 PM
On MMT • Does the left want paternalistic technocracy, or democratic socialism?
Love, loss, and community • On grieving alone - and learning how to share the load.
Love, loss, and community
On grieving alone - and learning how to share the load.
graceblakeley.substack.com
November 28, 2025 at 10:30 AM
Love, loss, and community • On grieving alone - and learning how to share the load.
Rachel Reeves is living on another planet • A country in crisis and a government in denial.
Rachel Reeves is living on another planet
A country in crisis and a government in denial.
graceblakeley.substack.com
November 26, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Rachel Reeves is living on another planet • A country in crisis and a government in denial.
Protecting Industry, Not People: The Great Building Safety Scandal • Developers are putting profits before safety, giving rise to an age of disposable homes, enduring liabilities, and unaccountable power.
Protecting Industry, Not People: The Great Building Safety Scandal
Developers are putting profits before safety, giving rise to an age of disposable homes, enduring liabilities, and unaccountable power.
graceblakeley.substack.com
November 24, 2025 at 4:55 PM
Protecting Industry, Not People: The Great Building Safety Scandal • Developers are putting profits before safety, giving rise to an age of disposable homes, enduring liabilities, and unaccountable power.
What I read this week • The tech sell off, Saudi Arabia's oil lobbying machine, and why the left can't beat the far-right at its own game.
What I read this week
The tech sell off, Saudi Arabia's oil lobbying machine, and why the left can't beat the far-right at its own game.
graceblakeley.substack.com
November 24, 2025 at 4:55 PM
What I read this week • The tech sell off, Saudi Arabia's oil lobbying machine, and why the left can't beat the far-right at its own game.
Power or prosperity? • China's dilemma in an age of overproduction.
Power or prosperity?
China's dilemma in an age of overproduction.
graceblakeley.substack.com
November 24, 2025 at 4:55 PM
Power or prosperity? • China's dilemma in an age of overproduction.
What Happens When Liberal Democracy Fails? • A recording from Grace Blakeley and America's Undoing's live video
What Happens When Liberal Democracy Fails?
A recording from Grace Blakeley and America's Undoing's live video
graceblakeley.substack.com
November 24, 2025 at 4:55 PM
What Happens When Liberal Democracy Fails? • A recording from Grace Blakeley and America's Undoing's live video
The AI Boom is Fueling a New Gilded Age • The AI bubble is making the rich richer - but when it bursts, ordinary Americans will have to pick up the tab.
The AI Boom is Fueling a New Gilded Age
The AI bubble is making the rich richer - but when it bursts, ordinary Americans will have to pick up the tab.
graceblakeley.substack.com
November 24, 2025 at 4:55 PM
The AI Boom is Fueling a New Gilded Age • The AI bubble is making the rich richer - but when it bursts, ordinary Americans will have to pick up the tab.
The Roundup #6 • The UK's failing democracy, the importance of co-ops, how mainstream parties are reinforcing far-right narratives - and much more!
The Roundup #6
The UK's failing democracy, the importance of co-ops, how mainstream parties are reinforcing far-right narratives - and much more!
graceblakeley.substack.com
November 24, 2025 at 4:55 PM
The Roundup #6 • The UK's failing democracy, the importance of co-ops, how mainstream parties are reinforcing far-right narratives - and much more!
What I Read this Week • From the Great Smog of London to the burning Amazon; Reform's war on young people; and Mark Carney's government of Goldman Sachs executives.
What I Read this Week
From the Great Smog of London to the burning Amazon; Reform's war on young people; and Mark Carney's government of Goldman Sachs executives.
graceblakeley.substack.com
November 24, 2025 at 4:55 PM
What I Read this Week • From the Great Smog of London to the burning Amazon; Reform's war on young people; and Mark Carney's government of Goldman Sachs executives.
When the World is on Fire, Cooperate • Why worker cooperatives matter, what Piketty got wrong, and how economic democracy can still be born amid crisis.
When the World is on Fire, Cooperate
Why worker cooperatives matter, what Piketty got wrong, and how economic democracy can still be born amid crisis.
graceblakeley.substack.com
November 24, 2025 at 4:55 PM
When the World is on Fire, Cooperate • Why worker cooperatives matter, what Piketty got wrong, and how economic democracy can still be born amid crisis.
The UK's Failing Democracy • The Carnegie Foundation's Life in the UK report shows the weakness of UK democracy, and the suffering caused as a result .
The UK's Failing Democracy
The Carnegie Foundation's Life in the UK report shows the weakness of UK democracy, and the suffering caused as a result .
graceblakeley.substack.com
November 24, 2025 at 4:55 PM
The UK's Failing Democracy • The Carnegie Foundation's Life in the UK report shows the weakness of UK democracy, and the suffering caused as a result .
What I Read this Week • The cost of living crisis and the trade war continue, Hurricane Melissa devastates Jamaica, and why Reform will struggle to cut public spending.
What I Read this Week
The cost of living crisis and the trade war continue, Hurricane Melissa devastates Jamaica, and why Reform will struggle to cut public spending.
graceblakeley.substack.com
November 24, 2025 at 4:55 PM
What I Read this Week • The cost of living crisis and the trade war continue, Hurricane Melissa devastates Jamaica, and why Reform will struggle to cut public spending.
Democracy for Sale • A new report from the Autonomy Institute lays bare how Britain’s political and economic elites are entangled.
Democracy for Sale
A new report from the Autonomy Institute lays bare how Britain’s political and economic elites are entangled.
graceblakeley.substack.com
November 24, 2025 at 4:55 PM
Democracy for Sale • A new report from the Autonomy Institute lays bare how Britain’s political and economic elites are entangled.