Ever since austerity programmes began  they have been justified by a number of rather bizarre economic arguments. The first of these was that government borrowing
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Following my blog on the language of economic debate yesterday Ivan Horrocks posted a comment that I thought worth sharing more widely: There was a
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Former Conservative MP Matthew Parris was interesting on the BBC's Moral Maze last night. He argued that we are not living in an era when
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Boris Johnson has said that London needs investment of £1.3 trillion between now and 2050 if it is to meet the demands that will be
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Someone put it to me recently that writing several blogs before breakfast on most days of the week was not normal behaviour, but that’s what
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When I am asked by journalists why the tax justice movement has been successful, as I am, quite often, one of the reasons I offer
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Ed Balls will argue this morning that the Conservatives would, if re-elected, cut the top rate of income tax to 40% whilst increasing taxes on
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This is off topic, but if you have not seen this, please watch it. There are, no doubt, errors and misjudgements being made by both
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The IMF’s new report on the UK is totally contradictory in its prescriptions. The fact is conventional economics has no clue about how to deal
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