Fascism is on my agenda
Saturday, June 29th, 2024I am not going to offer an apology for the fact that my videos over the next few days are going to be about fascism,
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The foxes really do look like they have taken over the chicken run
Friday, June 28th, 2024The Economist magazine has declared itself for Labour in this election. In an email sent this morning by its editor, it declared the reason for
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UK first quarter GDP has been found to have included a rounding error
Friday, June 28th, 2024The Office for National Statistics has issued this statement this morning: UK gross domestic product (GDP) is estimated to have increased by 0.7% in Quarter
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The Tories: lost, rudderless and without a clue what to do about it
Friday, June 28th, 2024John Burn-Murdoch has one of his incredibly good data-journalism articles in the FT this morning. He is tackling a theme I have also addressed this
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For the sake of the world, the Democrats need to get rid of Biden now
Friday, June 28th, 2024I have a friend who is in her early 80s. She has dementia. She does, as is almost always the way, deny it, only now
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The party is over
Friday, June 28th, 2024I have published this video this morning. In it, I argue that the Tories are likely to cease to be after this election, becoming so
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A population who can see they are being exploited will not tolerate it for long
Friday, June 28th, 2024As the Bank of England announced in a report yesterday: While most fixed-rate mortgages have repriced since mortgage rates started to rise in 2021 H2,
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Why QE in practice could never have worked as those proposing it claimed
Thursday, June 27th, 2024Following the publication of my post this morning on why Chris Giles of the Financial Times did not understand the QE process there have been
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Will Wes Streeting fail on his first day in office, and set the scene for the whole of the next Labour government?
Thursday, June 27th, 2024On 5 July, it is very likely that Wes Streeting will become Right Honourable and will be promoted to the Cabinet as Health Secretary. That
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