The Scottish government yesterday broadly adopted the deeply depressing, profoundly conventional and neoliberal suggestions of the commission that it appointed to advise on recovery from
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From my tweets this morning, best read from the bottom up on this occasion: With thanks to Helen Schofield whose suggestions provided my reading last
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The Green New Deal is a recurring theme of mine, largely because I have been involved in it from the outset as one of the
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I am struggling with this morning’s Bank of England (BoE) Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) report. There are a number of reasons. One is that I
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I think it fair to say that whatever we once thought we knew about economics, we no longer know. Saying so, I am not talking
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I was amused by the honesty of an an article by Julian Jessop, the head of economics at the Institute of Economic Affairs, that came
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I recently submitted a fairly lengthy comment to the Government’s consultation on the creation of new Freeport in the UK, suggesting that it was almost
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Not much has changed since the 1990s when it comes to Euro-scepticism. This was recorded during the Major years by John Bird and John Fortune:
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This provocative (in the sense of thought provoking) comment was posted on the blog yesterday and I can only apologise to Andrew Sayer and Kevin
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