As I am heading to Scotland this morning to discuss politics on Debate Night on BBC Scotland this evening news has broken that Nicola Sturgeon
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On BBC Scotland Debate Night tonight NOW CANCELLED
AN UPDATE: This has been cancelled because Nicola Surgeon has resigned. I am on my way to Pitlochry this morning. It’s a 430 mile trip.
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Inflation is falling – but not thanks to the Bank of England or government policy
As I predicted, the Office for National Statistics has confirmed this morning that the rate of inflation in the UK is falling: The decrease in
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Political economy
This is another draft entry in the glossary that I am in the process of writing. This time the subject is political economy, which is
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The govermment’s pay offers are well below market average – because they are trying to destroy public services
The ONS published a lot of pay data this morning. The chart I found most interesting was this one: Median pay growth has exceeded 5%
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10% of GDP is made up – it simply does not exist in the real world
As part of the work I have been doing on GDP for the glossary a comment was made about the little-known element within GDP that
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The gold standard
This is the proposed entry for the gold standard in the glossary I am writing. There will be another entry on the myths that the
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Another glossary update
The more observant readers will have noted that the glossary was live on this site for a few hours on Saturday whilst testing took place.
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Who is it that is ratcheting inflation upwards? Is it multinational corporations or nurses, teachers and rail workers?
The Guardian has reported this morning that: So, a simple question. Who is it that is ratcheting inflation upwards? Is it multinational corporations, such as
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