As the Guardian reports this morning: If Keir Starmer is toppled, key Labour power brokers believe it wise to keep Rachel Reeves as chancellor, to
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As The Telegraph reports in an email this morning: Britain’s economy expanded in the first three months of the year despite the outbreak of the
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I have struggled with the news agenda this morning. I wanted to write something about the King’s Speech, and its depressingly neoliberal, anti-human rights slant.
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UK government borrowing costs are rising fast, and the official explanation does not make sense. Britain is paying far more to borrow than France or
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Two comments in one FT email this morning gave us a good clue that all my predictions about the failure to end the war in
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The Labour Party leadership question is very hard to avoid. The news is dominated by it. The government is being incapacitated by it. We have
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The Labour Party leadership question is very hard to avoid. The news is dominated by it. The government is being incapacitated by it. We have
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Why does Britain keep ending up with weak Prime Ministers? In this video, I argue that the problem is no longer simply about personalities or
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Bond markets are reported to be twitchy this morning. Gilt rates are rising. The City of London is muttering about “fiscal credibility”. And the reason
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