I was asked on the blog yesterday what the government could have done after 2008 to prevent the almost inevitable financial crash that I think
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I was talking to an old friend, Tony Groves, of the Echo Chamber podcast, based in Dublin, on Friday, largely because I was recording a
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For more than 45 years, the UK has suffered not one, but two economic curses: the resource curse and the finance curse. Both were chosen,
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The Tories’ response to Covid in March 2020 was chaotic and indecisive, according to the official report on the issue. The Guardian notes: “Too little
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This was good, and entirely appropriate, from John Harris in The Guardian yesterday: People’s identities are complicated – something intensified by the means of communication
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According to The Spectator this morning, ‘Britain is frozen with fear’, or so its main headline for the day says. When, however, you look at
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Democracy really is under threat in the USA. Almost unmentioned by the media in the UK, it is grinding to a halt. This comes from
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As a matter of policy, we are now posting some polls with related discussion on YouTube, with the material being derived from non-video content here,
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The Caerphilly Senedd by-election result yesterday was reported in advance as being on a knife-edge between Plaid Cymru and Reform, with Labour, the incumbents in
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