Rachel Reeves will not fix Britain today. So I’ve published my Alternative Budget for 2025 — a complete plan to end austerity, rebuild public services,
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The state of right wing thinking on the economy
It’s important to be reminded what right-wing thinking about Britain really is every now and again. The reason is that in recent decades, where right-wing
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We could have avoided a crash
This came from an email from The Economist yesterday: Today Gita Gopinath, a former chief economist of the IMF, sounds a warning. In a guest
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The finance curse
The UK suffers from a finance curse. Far from being our economic jewel, the City of London has drained trillions from the economy. That’s lost
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Migration is essential: we literally cannot do without it
The Guardian published these maps projecting changes in the population of countries and regions within Europe by 2100 yesterday. This is the map of population
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Why we need migrants into the UK
Background As I mentioned yesterday, I have written a column for the National on migration and the impending crisis that is going to envelop the
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Rolling out the red carpet
The National has a series of articles this week, welcoming inward migration to Scotland. I am one of the first to comment in the series,
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London’s stock market is broken
The UK’s CBI claims the London Stock Exchange is in crisis because of tax and regulation. But that’s nonsense. The real issue? London’s stock market
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Is the UK state pension safe?
I have returned to this issue, discussed here not long ago, as the YouTube audience differs to that here: Will you still get a UK
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