The Bank of England's justifications for quantitative tightening as provided to the Commons Treasury Committee are almost entirely untrue
Wednesday, February 7th, 2024The House of Commons Treasury Committee published a report on quantitative tightening this morning. It’s 40 pages, and whilst I have scan read it all, please
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Truss is promoting an agenda that explicitly permits the powerful with a grudge to abuse anyone they wish with impunity
Wednesday, February 7th, 2024I should be grateful to GB News. They appear to be the only news organisation that was willing to carry verbatim extracts from Liz Truss’s
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The illness of Charles III
Tuesday, February 6th, 2024Do I need to mention the health of the King this morning when everyone else is? I think I do, because the news media are
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Don’t you just love being patronised by smug, self-interested, central bankers?
Tuesday, February 6th, 2024I have already mentioned patronising politicians this morning, so let me not miss out on mentioning patronising central bankers as well. As the FT reports
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Patronising Unionists are a gift to Irish unity
Tuesday, February 6th, 2024I hope the new First Minister of Northern Ireland, Michelle O’Neill, likes being patronised because she was in abundance yesterday. First, there was Rishi Sunak,
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First they came for Just Stop Oil
Tuesday, February 6th, 2024Occasionally I read something I think worth sharing in full on this blog. I did yesterday. It was on the blog of an old friend,
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The solution to increasing inability to work in the UK cannot be to raise the retirement age, which can only make everything worse
Monday, February 5th, 2024As a Guardian headline says this morning: The logic is that: By age 70, only 50% of adults in England and Wales are now disability-free and able
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Labour's (wrong) choice
Monday, February 5th, 2024Labour is putting its faith in business. That faith is that business will fund it, because it has alienated its membership. That faith expects that
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Business as usual is not just failing government in the UK; it is also failing business itself
Monday, February 5th, 2024There is a tendency to say that everything that is going wrong in our society is down to government underfunding, and then to blame neoliberal
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