North Norfolk dusk
Sunday, March 10th, 2024Having posted on some birds seen in Cley yesterday we decided to hang on until dusk, not quite knowing why, but with a vague plan
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Would we be better off without Labour?
Sunday, March 10th, 2024One of the most powerful lines in the film ‘Munich’ is: ‘Hope’ is waiting for someone else to do it. We’d all be much better
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The Yeats sisters: a magnificent celebration
Saturday, March 9th, 2024I watched Imelda May’s fascinating programme on Sky Arts last night, in which she explored the story of the Yeats sisters, Elizabeth and Susan, who
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Might we never see the like of Theresa May again?
Saturday, March 9th, 2024Theresa May is retiring. Thank heavens, I thought. Apparently not everyone agreed. So, I struggled to recall her achievements. She once called the Tories the
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It’s not been a good week for fiscal rules
Saturday, March 9th, 2024It’s not been a good week for fiscal rules. Jeremy Hunt has been mocked for his addiction to them. Everyone realises Labour has no chance
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What's next?
Friday, March 8th, 2024The Taxing Wealth Report 2024 production process is coming to a close. Work on it has dominated my time over the last eight months. Writing
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What the Taxing Wealth Report 2024 has not done, and what might happen next
Friday, March 8th, 2024There are a few bits of the final Taxing Wealth Report 2024, in whichever format it is produced, that I have written but which have
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Sometime soon Labour needs to talk about the macroeconomic reality that we face, because it is probably nothing like as good as Hunt predicts
Thursday, March 7th, 2024According to the Chancellor, all that matters about the Budget is that he meets his fiscal rule. For reasons that no one is aware of
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What is Labour going to fund their spending with now?
Thursday, March 7th, 2024As predicted some time ago, Jeremy Hunt undermined the whole Labour election strategy by closing the non-dom rule yesterday. According to Labour, doing this was
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