I first posted this blog on 24 August 2015. I offer it again because it is particularly relevant today given all the nonsense that will
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May’s massive paradoxical problem is that Labour say they’ll deliver all that she wants
I love this from the Guardian this morning: A strong and properly regulated free-market economy is the only way to guarantee higher living standards, Theresa
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How to beat off an organised attack on sterling if Labour was to win
I was on Talk Radio yesterday talking about the threat of a run on the pound if Labour was elected. You can hear it here.
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Turning Corbyn into a deliverable political philosophy
The FT’s youthful, and unashamedly Tory, political commentator Sebastian Payne has a piece in that paper today in which he suggests that the Labour Party
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Who delivered the greatest proportion of PFI spending?
From the FT this morning, from a useful article on PFI: The data is significant: what it shows is a PFI peak in 2000, which
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Who delivered a run on the pound?
As the FT has reported the Office for National Statistics is revising a number of features of UK national income reporting from this month. One
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Cutting the cost of PFI
From blog here to the lead Guardian letter for tomorrow’s paper: In your editorial (26 September) on John McDonnell’s proposal that PFI contracts be bought back
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The Guardian really does need to improve its economic literacy
The Guardian has one of its occasional economically illiterate editorials today, on the subject of PFI and John McDonnell’s plan for it. The illiteracy starts
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Laura Kuenssberg
I want to add my voice to those suffering disquiet at the treatment of Laura Kuenssberg that has required her to have bodyguards at the
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