An agenda for Labour
Monday, June 20th, 2022I wrote this comment in a tweet yesterday: Then, because I was playing with new video production software I recorded a video of the arguments
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When people's own savings are now being used to oppress them we need to fundamentally reform corporate accountability
Sunday, June 19th, 2022The UK has reached a moment when a decision has to be taken. Partly that is because it has to decide whether to continue to
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Is Mervyn King right that quantitative easing caused inflation?
Wednesday, June 15th, 2022I have published a new paper this morning as part of the work I am doing that is funded by the Polden Puckham Charitable Foundation
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Sunday thoughts
Sunday, June 12th, 2022This morning’s thoughts on Twitter, in a short thread: Sundays are for ideas. So, here are a few to muse on when out in the
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Money, debt and thin air
Saturday, June 11th, 2022As a result of yesterday’s thread on the relationship between banking, banks and the UK’s central bank – the Bank of England – a number
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Sunak's choice: to support the banks and their ill-gotten gains or to save the people of this country from poverty?
Friday, June 10th, 2022I have posted this thread on Twitter this morning: There is a story doing the news rounds this morning that Sunak has cost the government
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Why are we spending £3.7 billion a year subsidising ISAs when there is no return to the country for doing so?
Thursday, June 9th, 2022The government has published new savings statistics this week, including this chart and accompanying notes: Note that the data is already considerably dated. But even
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A note to the Tories: the tax cuts you want will not save the economy
Wednesday, June 8th, 2022Reports in the Guardian this morning suggest that ministers and other Tories are demanding tax cuts as the price of their support for Johnson, and
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The Moral Maze, tonight
Wednesday, June 8th, 2022As regular readers of this blog will know, I have strong republican sympathies. I most recently made that clear in the aftermath of the Jubilee
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