This country does not need a smaller state, but a more active one
Sunday, February 4th, 2024Sometimes I have to agree with Martin Wolf at the FT. This afternoon he has written this: As Nicholas Stern has noted in the FT,
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Labour and the nocebo effect
Sunday, February 4th, 2024Most people are familiar with who are called placebo effects. Fewer are familiar with the nocebo effects. These can be described in this way: The
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Samuelson on the legacy we leave for grandchildren
Saturday, February 3rd, 2024Paul Samuelson, the author of what still might be the most-sold textbook of the post-war era had this to say on page 427 of his
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Clive Lewis on Labour's £28bn plan for a Green New Deal
Saturday, February 3rd, 2024My Green New Deal colleague, Clive Lewis MP, has an article in the New Statesman discussing Labour’s £28 billion plan for a Green New Deal.
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Is David Cameron really as stupid as all appearances suggest he might be?
Friday, February 2nd, 2024I have a simple question to ask this morning. It is whether David Cameron is really as stupid as all appearances suggest he might be?
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Why repaying the national debt is not a good idea
Friday, February 2nd, 2024Earlier this week, I published a proposed glossary entry on the true nature of our so-called national debt. This won a lot of praise, but
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If you set out to do nothing you will achieve less than that, which is going to be Labour’s fate
Friday, February 2nd, 2024I did, as usual, have a column published by The National yesterday. In it I discussed the weaknesses in Labour’s plans for the financial services
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The Tory abuse of freedom
Thursday, February 1st, 2024As the Guardian notes this morning: The director of public prosecutions is appealing to the supreme court in an ongoing and expensive battle to overturn
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To claim we cannot afford more health and social care is an outright lie put forward by both the Tory and Labour leaderships, who are only interested in serving the wealthy
Thursday, February 1st, 2024The Guardian reports this morning that: Ministers must urgently inject £4bn into English town hall budgets to head off an “out of control” financial crisis
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