The real risk is that the economy could fail this winter
Wednesday, August 3rd, 2022I have just posted this thread on Twitter: How many people lived in fear in the summer of 1914, dreading what might happen? Come to
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These things I believe
Monday, August 1st, 2022This weekend a person who has all the appearance of being a right-wing troll, but may be the concerned member of the Labour Party that
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Tories want to cut public services and create a lot more really shit jobs
Sunday, July 17th, 2022The painkillers seemed to kick in this afternoon, and so I wrote a Twitter thread, largely inspired by the Tory leadership candidates: Tory leadership candidates
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Labour is offering us austerity, recession and economic failure as its new economic policy
Wednesday, July 13th, 2022Labour Shadow Chancellor Rachel Reeves is to make a speech at the Resolution Foundation today. According to the Guardian: Reeves will say a Labour government
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Government is not an economic black hole as Tories seem to think: it’s essential to our national well-being
Monday, July 11th, 2022I posted this thread on Twitter this morning: There is a real problem amongst the hopeful Tory party leaders. Not one of them seems to
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Questions for Tory Party leadership candidates
Saturday, July 9th, 2022I have just published this on Twitter: Questions for Tory Party leadership candidates, a thread to tease out what they really think: 1. Why did
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We need freedom from fear
Friday, June 3rd, 2022I wrote this yesterday: A vision has to address people’s hopes and their fears. Everyone has both. The balance between them determines the public mood
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Why is no one talking about Covid as a direct cause of inflationary pressure, and about how to address it?
Thursday, May 5th, 2022There have been many suggestions made as to the cause of the current inflation in our economy, a number of them by me. Two things
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Today it is the Passport Office and DVLA being lined up for privatisation. Will it be the NHS next?
Wednesday, April 27th, 2022As the FT has noted: Boris Johnson has threatened to privatise public bodies including the Passport Office and the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency unless
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