I posted this thread on Twitter this morning: The UK’s national debt is a strange figure. For example, to most people’s surprise it includes all
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The country does not have a credit card and cannot max it out
We are being driven into recession by a government that does not care
We are heading for recession. This is from the Office for National Statistics: The first quarterly estimate of UK gross domestic product (GDP) shows
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On Mastodon
I think anyone who uses Twitter will agree on two things this week. One is that they are worried about its future. The second is
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It really is time that the government got serious about fraud
My friend Prem (Lord) Sikka has drawn my attention to this question he asked in the House of Lords: This is the answer he was
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We cannot have an economic recovery unless we spend more on the NHS
I watched Stephen Barclay, who is our Health Secretary for the next few weeks, saying on Channel 4 News last night that the provision of
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The US Mid-terms are good news, with lessons for the UK
This quote comes from Heather Cox’s ’Letters from an American’ this morning: Yesterday was a good day for democracy. Americans turned out to defend our
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Cool, calm answers are needed on how Labour will fund the NHS
I posted this reply to tweets Wes Streeting posted in response to the questions I posed here yesterday on Twitter this morning. For those not
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Where the Bank of England’s going wrong
This is new from me on The Bunker podcast: Is the Bank of England working in our best interests? And what could it do differently?
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