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James Meadway

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James Meadway is the host of the podcast Macrodose

May 2026

  • A Borough Market stall displaying fruit and vegetables in baskets and crates

    Squeals of horror over price caps – but how are we going to fix our broken food system?

    Global events and the climate crisis have left Britain’s food system dangerously exposed and in desperate need of an overhaul

March 2026

  • Smoke rises above apartment blocks into the night sky

    Middle East crisis live
    Explosions heard across Tel Aviv – as it happened

  • A boat with gulls flying in the foreground.

    Globalisation is under threat from Iran war – and Britain is uniquely vulnerable

February 2026

  • cupped hands hold nuggets that contain a shiny mineral called tantalum

    The US is merely the latest to join the global rush to hoard critical minerals

    JD Vance is seeking to create a ‘trading bloc’ as shortages and climate crises mean a kaleidoscope of rare earths are increasingly jealously guarded

January 2026

  • Protesters participate in a demonstration in support of anti-government protests in Iran.

    G7 threatens more sanctions for Iran amid ’high level of reported deaths and injuries’ - as it happened

  • A man looking down on a river which has dried up in patches with sand showing through.

    How ‘day zero’ water shortages in Iran are fuelling protests

April 2025

  • People with an electronic board showing the Nikkei stock average on the Tokyo stock exchange, Tokyo, Japan, 7 April 2025

    double quotation markHere’s one key thing you should know about Trump’s shock to the world economy: it could work

    James Meadway
    It’s hard to say if the president truly knows what he’s doing. But there is a precedent for the US causing short-term chaos and reaping long-term gain, says economist James Meadway

November 2024

  • Flood-torn Jaen faces olive harvest crisis as drought strikes, depleting expected yields<br>JAEN, SPAIN - OCTOBER 31: Farmers work to harvest olives as this year's crop is delayed due to the impacts of drought and erratic rainfall in Jaen, Spain on October 31, 2024. The city of Jaen, located in Spain's southern Andalusia region, the largest olive production area in the world, is experiencing a significant delay in its olive harvest this year due to drought and erratic rainfall patterns exacerbated by climate change. Jaen, which accounts for 20% of the world's olive oil production and 50% of Spain's, spans approximately 550,000 hectares of olive groves. This year, it has struggled to recover after a substantial decline in production last year. The ongoing drought conditions in Spain, combined with sporadic heavy rains; such as those that recently affected Valencia on October 29, have further impacted olive yields. (Photo by Alex Camara/Anadolu via Getty Images)

    double quotation markSoaring grocery prices helped Trump to victory. The climate crisis is only going to make this worse

    James Meadway
    From olive oil to butter, extreme weather is pushing up the cost of living and having a dramatic political impact. Economists need a solution, says podcast host James Meadway

September 2024

  • Tributes adorn a green, heart-shaped London Underground-style roundel that reads 'Grenfell'

    Politics Weekly UK
    The final Grenfell inquiry report and what it means for families – Politics Weekly UK

    The Grenfell Tower fire was the result of ‘decades of failure’ by central government, the public inquiry into the catastrophe has found. John Harris looks at the findings of the seven-year report with the Guardian’s social affairs leader writer, Susanna Rustin
    Podcast30:27

November 2023

  • Rishi Sunak departs Downing Street on 15 November.

    double quotation markRishi Sunak’s empty boasting about ‘halving inflation’ can’t hide his economic failures

    James Meadway
    It is falling global energy prices that have led to a fall in inflation, rather than anything the prime minister has done, says James Meadway, the host of the Macrodose podcast

April 2023

  • a Tesco supermarket in Thirsk, North Yorkshire.

    double quotation markThe Bank of England is wrong again: workers aren’t to blame for inflation

    James Meadway
    Why should we ‘accept we’re worse off’, when corporate greed and global shortages are really to blame, asks James Meadway of the Progressive Economy Forum

January 2023

  • Laura Kuenssberg interviews Liz Truss in October 2022.

    double quotation markBad economics at the BBC enabled Tory austerity and its aftermath – and it knows as much

    James Meadway
  • Keir Starmer giving a speech in London, 5 January 2023.

    Starmer's path to power
    double quotation markKeir Starmer may win power, but he won’t be able to turn the UK around on the cheap

    James Meadway

November 2022

  • Jeremy Hunt in Downing Street.

    double quotation markThe Tories’ ‘fiscal black hole’ is a statistical fiction – let’s have a reality check

    James Meadway
    The government’s own arbitrary target is the source of this ‘shortfall’, says James Meadway of the Progressive Economy Forum

July 2022

  • The City of London viewed from parched Greenwich Park, July 2022.

    double quotation markWe’re living in an age of permanent crisis – let’s stop planning for a ‘return to normal’

    James Meadway
    Current plans seem foolish when we know that shocks such as global heating aren’t going away, says Progressive Economy Forum director James Meadway

May 2022

  • Shell's Brent Bravo oil rig in the North Sea, during a storm.

    double quotation markSunak’s package fails to tackle the true cause of UK inflation: shameless profiteering

    James Meadway
    The fact is, the price cap on energy bills is still going up – and this is a political choice, says James Meadway of the Progressive Economy Forum

November 2021

  • Rishi Sunak at a construction site in Hartlepool, April 2021

    double quotation markRail cuts are another sign of the Treasury’s bias against the north of England

    James Meadway
    The transport shakeup is chancellor Rishi Sunak’s latest weapon in the Treasury’s war with No 10, says James Meadway of the Progressive Economy Forum

September 2021

  • Boris Johnson with the Conservative party’s 2019 election manifesto.

    double quotation markTory plans to raise national insurance are regressive. There’s a better way

    James Meadway
    Labour should seize the opportunity to make the case for alternative ways of funding social care, says James Meadway of the Progressive Economy Forum

July 2021

  • Batley and Spen by-election 2021<br>Labour Candidate Kim Leabeater during canvassing and a visit to the Angloco factory which supplies Emergency Fire equipment. She was accompanied on the visit by Labour Rachel Reeves MP. Batley and Spen byElection, 2021.

    double quotation markLabour’s ‘Buy British’ policy isn’t nostalgia – it’s a smart response to new realities

    James Meadway
    A pledge to use the state’s £290bn procurement budget to buy from British companies is all about a future outside the EU, says James Meadway of IPPR

November 2020

  • Boarded-up shops in Camden, London

    double quotation markThere is a world beyond lockdown. It's time to come up with a hopeful vision

    James Meadway
    We have to confront reality, but it need not be bleak. Where is the radical thinking about a pandemic-proof Britain, asks James Meadway, associate fellow of the IPPR
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