According to the Office for National Statistics this morning: The Consumer Prices Index (CPI) rose by 6.7% in the 12 months to August 2023, down
Read the full article…

I noted this in The Guardian this morning: Care home bosses are demanding the next government funds a 44% pay rise for frontline staff to
Read the full article…

As investment advisers Hargreaves Lansdown have noted: [Yesterday] the Auto-enrolment Extension Bill continued its way through Parliament with its third reading in the House of
Read the full article…

The Guardian has noted this morning that: In a report entitled Troubled Waters, the thinktank Onward shows that communities set within 5km of England’s coast
Read the full article…

I have this morning published the next note in the Taxing Wealth Report 2024 series. In it, I suggest that it is essential that the UK
Read the full article…

As I noted in The National yesterday: Liz Truss’s speech at the Institute of Government was a soaring success in three ways. It showed us
Read the full article…

I have been hit by an avalanche of work for the day job that must be done this week. If service is delayed here, that
Read the full article…

Martin Wolf wrote this in an article in the FT yesterday. I have edited it lightly without changing the meaning: The British must not get
Read the full article…

This chart was included in a Martin Wolf article in the FT yesterday, but is worth noting in its own right: The pretence that the
Read the full article…