Brexit's all going horribly in accordance with my expectation
Monday, July 31st, 2017I have been musing on the political and economic chaos that Brexit has created over a weekend away from the blog. When doing so I
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What should the BBC ask instead of "where will the money come from?"
Wednesday, June 28th, 2017A person named Jo asked yesterday what the BBC should say in response to the DUP being offered £1 billion more for Northern Ireland if
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It looks as if the can has run out of road for euro banking
Sunday, June 25th, 2017The FT has reported tonight that: Italy has moved to shore up confidence in its fragile banking system after agreeing to pump €5bn of taxpayers’
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Changing the cladding won't be enough: it's the whole rotten system that has to change now
Sunday, June 18th, 2017The right wing of the Tory party got its attitude to regulation wrong. It got its faith in markets wrong. It got its attitude to
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Spain had the first ever run on a eurozone bank this week: don't think Northern Rock and HBOS can't happen again is the lesson to learn
Saturday, June 17th, 2017Amidst the post-election crisis, concern about the DUP, Brexit and anguish abut the tragedy at Grenfell Tower it has been easy to miss other events,
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Scottish independence debate is far from over
Tuesday, June 13th, 2017I am bemused by the widespread feeling, at least south of the border, that the general election has knocked discussion on Scottish independence into the
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An attempt at calm reflection
Friday, June 9th, 2017This morning is not made for cool calm reflection, and yet it must be. Apparently we have a new Cosnervative government. Amidst the euphoria of
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The Tories declare war on democracy
Friday, May 19th, 2017The Conservative Party manifesto contains the following chilling paragraph: The British public deserves to have confidence in our democracy. We will legislate to ensure that
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Why Corbyn is right to increase corporation tax
Wednesday, May 10th, 2017Jeremy Corby has said he will increase corporation tax from its current 19% for all companies to 21% for small companies and 26% for larger
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