The latest Institute for Fiscal Studies ⁠Green Budget has been published today. Like all such forecasts, this one is pure speculation, and whether it provides
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I talk in this morning’s video about the threats to democracy and the fact that voting is not the only indication that democracy is alive
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I am late to this by about a week. Stephanie Kelton’s film, Finding the Money, is now out and free to watch on YouTube. I
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Democracy requires much more than voting every few years. It requires people to have the time, security and mental capacity to understand political choices, consider
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I spent part of yesterday at a poetry workshop run by Alice Willetts as part of the Cambridge Poetry Festival. She was discussing writing for
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Why should a tiny minority receive the rewards from resources, knowledge and institutions that are ultimately part of our common inheritance? In this podcast, I
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Trump did a deal yesterday with Russia to supposedly release 3 million tonnes of diesel from Russia’s reserves over the next few months. I do
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Inflation means that prices are rising, but knowing the inflation rate does not tell us why prices are going up. In this Understanding Economics video,
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