Publications
Friday, February 10th, 2023This page refers to and links where possible to my major publications, largely to shut up those trolls who say I have never written anything.
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Shouldn’t we be celebrating recent record national savings?
Friday, July 19th, 2024There is new national debt data out today. This was my reaction to the announcement from the Office for National Statistics on Twitter: I am
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Much of the remaining inflationary pressure in our economy has been created by the Bank of England
Wednesday, July 17th, 2024It is a monthly requirement to comment on the Office for National Statistics announcement on inflation. This is what they had to say: There is
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Growth is not going to work for Labour
Wednesday, July 10th, 2024[NB: this post started life as a video, but the edit went wrong, so it has become a blog post instead. That might explain the
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If we had PR Labour would now be negotiating support so that it might form a government
Saturday, July 6th, 2024The Electoral Reform Society (of which I am a member) sent this commentary out in an email last night: The Electoral Reform Society has modelled
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Labour should be putting the UK's savings to use instead of turning to foreign capital
Monday, July 1st, 2024The Bank of England has reported this morning that: Household deposits with banks and building societies rose by £5.3 billion in May. This was driven
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Record traffic
Monday, July 1st, 2024I am aware that I sometimes write about statistics on this blog’s performance, whilst suspecting that some readers are really not interested. However, when you
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UK first quarter GDP has been found to have included a rounding error
Friday, June 28th, 2024The Office for National Statistics has issued this statement this morning: UK gross domestic product (GDP) is estimated to have increased by 0.7% in Quarter
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Will Wes Streeting fail on his first day in office, and set the scene for the whole of the next Labour government?
Thursday, June 27th, 2024On 5 July, it is very likely that Wes Streeting will become Right Honourable and will be promoted to the Cabinet as Health Secretary. That
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