This comes from an FT email this morning: Brexit is very clearly becoming a turf war for ministers who no longer feel themselves subject to
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Is Yellen trumping Trump?
The US Fed has raised interest rates. Let’s not get overwhelmed: the range is now 1 to 1.25%. But, let’s ask why. The US is
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Austerity is a killer. And that is wholly unnecessary
The Grenfell Tower fire has claimed twelve lives at the time of writing but no one thinks that will be the final total. And, I
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How Britain voted
This is from YouGov: And the unfortunate fact is that the young still did not turn out as much as hoped, but the elderly did:
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A farewell to austerity
It has taken less than a week for one of the casualties of the election to become apparent. Austerity is over. The long term economic
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It’s time to shake the People’s QE Money Tree
My Green New Deal colleague, Colin Hines, is in the Guardian this morning rehearsing some familiar themes. He co-authored the first green quantitative easing publication: Sorry
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Scottish independence debate is far from over
I am bemused by the widespread feeling, at least south of the border, that the general election has knocked discussion on Scottish independence into the
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Hard v soft: should we be given the choice?
I was discussing Brexit last night. My co-discussant made a good point that is worth sharing. Eighty five per cent of votes cast in the general
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It’s time for Labour to adopt the Green New Deal
In July 2008 I was one of the authors of what a group of us called the Green New Deal. It was a plan to
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