At the Labour Party conference this morning, Rachel Reeves said: “There is nothing progressive, nothing Labour, about government using one in every £10 of public
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As the Guardian reports this morning: The government has said it will underwrite a £1.5bn loan guarantee to Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) as the carmaker battles the
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Introduction This is one of a series of posts on this blog which summarise my thinking on some key economic issues about which I am
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The amount of email traffic I am receiving regarding the blog and YouTube is increasing at present. Some are invitations: I am doing a fair
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Yesterday, Keir Starmer described Reform’s policy on the right to indefinite leave to remain (ILR) in the UK as “racist”, “immoral” and likely to “tear
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Yesterday‘s post on Plato’s Cave was not, as it turns out, the only one to have come out of Saturday morning’s discussion that Jacqueline and
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Keir Starmer has reopened the debate on national identity cards. Supporters say they could make public services, voting, and security simpler. Critics warn of surveillance,
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The FT has done some fascinating analysis of Keir Starmer’s speeches over the last few years. What they found was: The single word “change” —
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The Guardian’s editorial today begins with a long evisceration of Keir Starmer and his caution, before noting: Andy Burnham, sketching a different course. His “Manchesterism”
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