I posted this thread on Twitter today in response to noises coming out of the Bank of England on the need for interest rate increases:
Read the full article…
The Bank of England is going to trash the UK economy in the next year. It should have to decency to say that’s deliberate.
Without adjustment to the devolution settlement the devolved nations could suffer very badly because of inflation
For those with an interest in Scotland and its economy, I think what I had to say in The National yesterday was quite significant: There
Read the full article…
Thoughts amid the wreckage
There is a rule in our house that phones do not come to the table. Three of us ate together last evening, all pretty avid
Read the full article…
I am so bored by the politic of absence
I am so bored by the politic of absence. What I mean is I have really had enough of politics where the best we dream
Read the full article…
The recipe for an economic disaster exists, chosen by idiots possessed of a dogma in pursuit of destruction
The Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders has reported that: June new car registrations fell 24.3% to 140,958 units – the weakest performance for the
Read the full article…
The Brexiteers are losing faith. Remainers are not.
One has to take good news where you can find it these days. This seemed like a rare glimmer of hope to me, from Byline
Read the full article…
Where the market fails, the state has to step in
Polly Toynbee picked up on my ideas published at the weekend on a strategy for the left, saying in her column in the Guardian this
Read the full article…
The Tories economic plan is intended to deliver misery, disruption, chaos, and shattered lives
I posted this thread on Twitter this morning: Sunak and Johnson said yesterday that the Bank of England has to act to tackle inflation caused
Read the full article…

Buy me a coffee!
