I really enjoyed attending this festival this year. So, I thought I would give next year’s an early plug. Right now, I am not speaking,
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Foreboding
I wrote yesterday’s post on the need for a new approach to national security and resilience with what I admit was a growing sense of
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Progress for the Taxing Wealth Report?
This is in a Telegraph email this morning. I am reproducing it because this is not behind their paywall: Andy Burnham is considering increasing capital
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Understanding economics: What is business?
What is a business? The conventional economic answer tends to focus on firms, markets, capital and profit. I think that misses the most important part
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Building the foundations for the Alterntive Budget, 2026
Summary I began a discussion yesterday about what this year’s Budget should consider. I stressed that security issues would be key, but that national security can
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The new inequality: affording to find a job
I had a conversation yesterday about the career plans of a young woman of my acquaintance. In her early 20s, she is fortunate to have
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The economics of attention
In this podcast, I talk with my old friend and Tax Justice Network co-founder John Christensen about something economics rarely discusses, which is who controls
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The economy is going to get really bad. We need a plan. And John Healey is Chancellor.
Heather Cox Richardson, in her Letter from an AMerican on Substack, which I recommend subscribing to, said over night: According to the American Automobile Association,
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RNLI Hunstanton
I said I would visit an RNLI station yesterday. Having worked a full day last Sunday, I felt like a day off, so we went
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