Money is just double-entry bookkeeping, but you get it wrong at your peril
Monday, March 13th, 2023It seems appropriate to share this entry on money that I posted to the glossary yesterday in light of the Silicon Valley Bank failure. SVB
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What is fascism?
Sunday, March 12th, 2023I was asked recently to add a definition of fascism to the glossary and in light of the current debate felt it useful to do
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There is a mortgage crisis in the UK - entirely as a result of wholly mistaken government economic policy
Friday, March 10th, 2023According to the FCA – the UK’s Financial Conduct Authority – mortgage stress in the UK is growing. New data that they have issued today
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Gary Lineker has stood up to fascism. So must we all. Our freedoms depends on it.
Thursday, March 9th, 2023There is only one story in the news this morning, and it is Gary Lineker’s tweets. For the record these are the tweets that he
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Trying ChatGPT
Wednesday, March 8th, 2023Several discussions off the artificial intelligence (AI) app, ChatGPT, have arisen in the comments on this blog so I amused myself by trying it yesterday.
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The Overton window
Monday, March 6th, 2023I have just added the entry reproduced below on the Overton window in the glossary, as suggested by a commentator yesterday. Why is this relevant
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Other new glossary items
Friday, March 3rd, 2023Another, somewhat random, pile of glossary items have gone live, as follows: Jurisdiction National government International finance centre Offshore banking MNC Investment fund National insurance
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You cannot create change by keeping the system that delivered failure in place. Until Labout realises that it has no chance of delivering what this country wants.
Tuesday, February 28th, 2023Lost amongst yesterday’s Northern Ireland deal was Keir Starmer’s speech on how he is going to deliver the highest rate of growth in the G7
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Additions to the glossary
Sunday, February 26th, 2023am aware that I said I wanted a day off yesterday, but I watched slow television on BBC4 last night and added a pile of
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