I have been playing with some of the figures in projected tax receipts published by the Office for Budget Responsibility yesterday (table 3.4 for the
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The government aims to raise the square root of diddlysquat from green bonds
I take this from the Daily Mail: In other words, by offering a miserly rate of interest the government is confirming it has no interest
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There is no sign of a vaccine bounce in spending as yet
The Office for National Statistics issued this chart this morning: The key indicator is the second line down – the aggregate spending. In February 2021
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Brexit is not a done deal as yet
The Guardian reports this morning that: The British government has been accused of breaking international law for a second time by the European commission after
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The morning after the budget reveals a Chancellor without a strategy and out of ideas
The morning after the budget is always a moment of reckoning. For George Osborne it was when things usually began to unwind, badly. Do you
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