Bank base rates should be no more than 3% by now
Tuesday, June 25th, 2024This morning’s short video has now been published. In it, I argue that it is an economic scandal in the making that Bank of England
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Assange's release
Tuesday, June 25th, 2024I admit that I have never been Julian Assange’s greatest fan. I met him once, and decided that I could not deal with him. Something
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Tackling the political void that Labour will create after 4th July
Tuesday, June 25th, 2024People are beginning to realise, with a sense of dull awareness, that we are heading into the most enormous political void in this country. There
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Wes Streeting's dreams are going to be shattered
Tuesday, June 25th, 2024I have published this video this morning. In it I argue that it seems as if Wes Streeting’s dream for the NHS is that it
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It won’t come better than this
Tuesday, June 25th, 2024John Oliver’s US based talk show is not easily accessible, at least by me, in the UK. He did, however, do an analysis of the
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For once the IFS are on the same side - by keeping a significant distance from Labour's dire economic plans
Tuesday, June 25th, 2024I have been pleased to hear Paul Johnson and Carl Emerson of the Institute for Fiscal Studies criticise both the Labour and Conservative parties’ economic
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The politics of blandness
Monday, June 24th, 2024A weekend spent trying to avoid some of the discussion going on around the election was worthwhile. At the end of it I had done
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Am I on the far left?
Monday, June 24th, 2024In this morning’s main video, I note that far-right commentators – the sort to be found in the Tufton Street think tanks – are suggesting
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Will Labour have the sense to go for wealth taxes?
Sunday, June 23rd, 2024As the Guardian has reported: The Labour party has been drawing up options for how it could raise money through extra wealth taxes to help rebuild Britain’s
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