Nick Shepley

1 month ago | bylines.cymru | Nick Shepley

You will never be a billionaire. Just as you will never develop superpowers, travel to another dimension, or rise from the dead, you will never, ever own in excess of a billion pounds in cash or assets. I feel I can say that with such certainty for two reasons. First, it's an inconceivably huge sum of wealth. And second, it's not in the interests of the existing class of billionaires to widen their club very much.

1 month ago | explaininghistory.org | Nick Shepley

IntroductionA recurring claim in populist right-wing discourse asserts that Adolf Hitler and the Nazi movement were “socialist.” This argument leans superficially on the word “Socialist” in the Nazi Party’s name (National Socialist German Workers’ Party) and occasional anti-capitalist rhetoric used by Nazi propagandists. However, the overwhelming consensus of historical scholarship rejects this claim .

Apr 29, 2024 | bylines.cymru | Nick Shepley

This letter isn't directed exclusively at the Labour Party leadership or the parliamentary party, but is written to each and every member throughout the country. Britain has an historic opportunity in 2024 to break the Conservative Party as a political force permanently. Polls show that Rishi Sunak will lead the Tories to an almost unprecedented political defeat when he eventually calls a general election. This would create the opportunity for tremendous transformation in Britain, if seized.

Apr 7, 2024 | bylines.cymru | Nick Shepley

The past 14 years of austerity and increasing poverty, an unprecedented ideological onslaught that may have resulted in over a million additional deaths by 2019 alone, was possible because of two key groups in our society - our political class and our 'commentators'. While politicians have some form of democratic mandate (albeit sometimes exceedingly tenuous), commentators and columnists have none.

Sep 8, 2023 | bylines.cymru | Nick Shepley

Stuart was one of the loneliest people I ever met. He struggled for years with an exhausting, dark depression that robbed his life of any colour or vibrancy, and was extremely physically unwell. He had a degenerative bone disease that made mobility very difficult. It was always touch and go whether he’d be able to see me at all. Sometimes all Stuart could manage was phone calls to the charity where I worked, to tell me he was too ill to make it to counselling sessions.