This is the FTSE 100 5 year chart from Yahoo, just now: That is what a cliffe edge looks like. And it will get worse.
Rishi Sunak, then and now. Who was right?
As a newly elected MP Rishi Sunak spoke in the budget debate of 2015, saying: That to me suggests a simple conclusion: in normal times,
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The markets are not convinced by Rishi Sunak
This morning’s chart for the FTSE 100 suggests that the markets are as unconvinced by Rishi Sunak’s budget as I was: As votes of confidence
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Each UK hospital has been, on average, doing just over one coronavirus test a day so far this week
I tweeted this last night: There are 1,257 hospitals in the UK. Yesterday they did 1,500 coronavirus tests between them. That is just over one
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Calm budget reflection suggests that Sunak has not as yet got any real awareness of the scale of the problem that’s facing him
It is time for calm budget reflection. Or rather, as calm a budget reflection as can be delivered on a day when the world appears
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