Martin Wolf used his FT column this morning to demand that Labour increase taxes in this country. He did not do so to address the
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According to the FT, UK Chancellor of the Exchequer John Healey will claim today that, and I quote, “Britain is about to enter “a new
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I watched Laura Kuenssberg’s interview with Andy Burnham before the Labour Party conference started yesterday. It was a dispiriting event that did neither of them
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Why should money earn interest simply because somebody owns it? We usually treat interest as a natural and inevitable part of the economy, but in
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I have a new podcast out with Prof. Radhika Desai: I really enjoyed this conversation. Like my conversations with John Christensen, I think this is
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I said I would go birdwatching yesterday. And I did. There are four types of geese in this photograph: greylag, Canada, punk-footed and Brent (much
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Politicians and economic commentators constantly talk about “taxpayers’ money”. In this video, I argue that this phrase fundamentally misrepresents how government spending and taxation work.
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The FT has this headline this morning: The claim is then made that: [The] S&P Global’s Purchasing Managers’ Index on Wednesday, … surprised Wall Street
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As The Guardian and every other newspaper in the UK, and many other countries around the world, have reported this morning: Manchester City have been
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