The FT has this headline this morning: The claim is then made that: [The] S&P Global’s Purchasing Managers’ Index on Wednesday, … surprised Wall Street
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Manchester City must be expelled
As The Guardian and every other newspaper in the UK, and many other countries around the world, have reported this morning: Manchester City have been
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The triple lock punishment
I have this letter in The Guardian this morning: Gaby Hinsliff claims that “Every serious party needs billions of pounds to fund their promises, and
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What is a market?
What is a market? Economists often talk about markets as though they are natural forces that operate independently of society and government. In this Understanding
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If billionaires want to use tax as a weapon, let them go
The Financial Times has reported that billionaire Peter Hargreaves, co-founder of Hargreaves Lansdown, has warned against increasing taxes on wealthy people because, he says, Britain
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The media is changing – and that threatens democracy
I noted over this summer that we appeared to be having a traffic downturn on this blog and elsewhere. I discussed this with other people
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You’re not too keen on Reform
The poll I put up here yesterday on proposed changes to the UK state old-age pension suggested by a think tank linked to Reform was
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Britain’s real interest crisis
Is the UK facing a government debt interest crisis? More than £100 billion a year is now being spent on debt interest, and this is
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Should the state pension be replaced?
The Guardian newspaper reported this week that: A thinktank linked to Reform UK has called for the abolition of the state pension and £75bn worth
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