As the FT has noted: Santander chief Ana Botín has hit out at the UK’s bank taxes, saying the regime “makes no economic sense” as
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The real-world signs that people and economies are reacting to the consequences of Trump’s war on Iran are growing by the day, and none of
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THE RICHARD J MURPHY YOUTUBE CHANNEL DEBATE AMMUNITION WHY IS THE BANK OF ENGLAND KEEPING INTEREST RATES SO HIGH? Funding the Future | June 2026
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UK interest rates are far too high, and the Bank of England is making a serious mistake by keeping them that way. Mortgage holders are
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This post is one of an ongoing series explaining Richard Murphy’s views on significant topics in economics, political economy, politics, taxation, and accounting. It should
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I published this post on Substack yesterday, but feel it needs an outing here as well, given what I have written about Gillian Tett and
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The Guardian reported yesterday that: Phil Pluck, the chief executive of the Cold Chain Federation (CCF), which represents businesses involved in supplying and transporting temperature-sensitive
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Gillian Tett, the Provost of King’s College, Cambridge, where once John Maynard Keynes was both a fellow and a professor, and which was his academic
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A doctor stopped me in the street recently to thank me for making videos that make sense of a world that doesn’t. I get messages
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