I know Faiza Shaheen and respect her commitment to challenging the economic thinking that has done so much harm to the UK. But I disagree
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How can France be neoliberal when its government spends 57% of GDP and maintains one of Europe’s largest welfare states? With protests taking place across
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I took time to breathe deeply, look at the world, and think hard today. In this morning’s deep fog, Jacqueline and I had coffee near
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There were two big tech stories yesterday. One was the hacking of the Binance crypto exchange, with a possible loss of more than $6 billion.
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The background I wrote yesterday about the absurd, and wholly inappropriate, focus on what politicians call welfare costs, and which I call social security, on
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Why does the government keep telling us that it must balance its books? And what happens to the rest of the economy when it tries
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I have been through an exhausting few weeks. The blog has, as usual, had content every day. So have a number of other platforms. YouTube
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The post-budget reaction, after John Healey’s debacle this week, is highlighting a number of issues. The first, and most obvious, is the prevalence of the
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I rarely record a single-take 28-minute video, but I did yesterday as I talked through the charts in the Office for Budget Responsibility’s report that
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