According to Reuters: Inflation running above the Bank of England’s 2% target appears to have become embedded in the British economy and risks getting further
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Is France jettisoning neoliberalism?
I watched a series of news broadcasts last night, all of which referred to what is now being called a polycrisis in France. As a
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Why are the Tories talking about inheritance tax?
The Conservatives are using their party conference to put inheritance tax back at the centre of political debate. In this video, I question why Kemi
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Stupid headlines of our (Financial) Times
The FT has just published this headline: As stupid headlines go, that one does take some beating. The whole reason why the S&P 500 has
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Why are the Tories obsessed with inheritance tax?
There is something quite extraordinary about the Conservative Party apparently deciding that cutting inheritance tax should be a centrepiece of its attempt to recover its
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Will an AI bubble burst be the time when MMT rolls out?
A story in the FT this morning suggests that the insurance industry is preparing for potentially multimillion-dollar claims arising from AI agents acting beyond their
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Badenoch’s Right Way is wrong
Kemi Badenoch has set out her vision for a new Conservatism in ‘The Right Way’. Its central argument is that government should do less while
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It’s time to nationalise our web infrastructure
As the Telegraph reports this morning: BT has rescued TalkTalk from administration in a £400m deal that raises competition concerns. The FTSE 100 telecoms giant
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Reshaping thinking
The event that we held in Ely on Saturday was, I think, a success. My team assured me they felt this way, and I have
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