The background I wrote yesterday about the absurd, and wholly inappropriate, focus on what politicians call welfare costs, and which I call social security, on
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Why does the government keep telling us that it must balance its books? And what happens to the rest of the economy when it tries
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I have been through an exhausting few weeks. The blog has, as usual, had content every day. So have a number of other platforms. YouTube
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The post-budget reaction, after John Healey’s debacle this week, is highlighting a number of issues. The first, and most obvious, is the prevalence of the
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I rarely record a single-take 28-minute video, but I did yesterday as I talked through the charts in the Office for Budget Responsibility’s report that
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The government’s own economic forecasts reveal something extraordinary about Labour’s Budget. The figures simply don’t add up. I’ve examined the Office for Budget Responsibility’s forecasts
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I have this press release to share on the final release of the Finance Curse film, which has been on its way for some time
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I was planning to spend time this morning looking at the Office for Budget Responsibility projections for the UK economy, issued yesterday in association with
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It is very hard to explain just how bad yesterday’s Budget was, in terms of having nothing to say, in terms of its presentation, and
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