I could write a lot about bond markets, the media, and the conspiracy they have created by mutual consent to deny democratic choice in this
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After a day when a great deal happened in Labour Party politics, and at the same time nothing very much happened at all, I have
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Donald Trump may accidentally have told the truth this week. He openly admitted that he was not thinking about the financial well-being of ordinary Americans
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My postman, John, and I had a conversation this morning, as we have talked many times over the past decade. Our topic? Who might lead
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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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