It is August. Today’s news reads much like yesterday’s. It would be easy to think all is calm in the world and we can afford
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The easiest way to create growth in the UK is to redistribute wealth to those in need
With apologies for re-hashing Twitter threads here this morning, but I am on low energy, and another course of antibiotics has just been prescribed. This
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Why have there been so few riots?
Danny Blanchflower tweeted this yesterday: In one of our many exchanges of the day, I replied; Of my two suggested answers, the debt enslavement issue
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There is every reason to be worried
Compared to the end of last week, I had a quiet weekend. I had little choice. The antibiotics for post-Covid sinusitis ended, and the sinusitis
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Tax cuts for the rich increase inequality but do nothing for growth
Liz Truss might like to read this: Tax cuts for the rich lead to higher income inequality. But they do not have any significant effect
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Getting the message out there
It has been a bit of a week. I have suffered a post-sinus infection throughout it and as a result, was unable to do much
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The Bank of England is setting us up for an almighty economic crash
The thread I wrote yesterday morning transferred, with minor edits, to Prospect magazine. They then asked me to do a TikTok video for them, which
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Universal basic services are the only answer to the crisis we are facing
I have just posted this long, but I think fairly important, thread to Twitter: Some people might have noticed that I disagreed the Bank of
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