As is now widely acknowledged, including by the company itself, Thames Water is now facing significant financial difficulties. That company has a £190 million debt
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Something happened this week. I am not referring to an actual event, although there have been plenty enough of them. I am instead referring to
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The Bank of England announced at midday today that it was leaving interest rates unchanged at 5.25% this month. Scrooge is in the counting-house for
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As Larry Elliott notes in the Guardian this morning: Urgent action is needed to prevent record debt repayments by the world’s poorest countries developing into
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I got a call yesterday to tell me that there were ruddy ducks on the river in Ely. I am not a twitcher – meaning
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As the FT reported in yesterday’s Federal Reserve decision on interest rates in the USA: The Fed held interest rates at a 22-year high, but
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Kemi Badenoch is the Business Secretary. She is also the minister for inequality. And she is desperate to be the leader of the Tory party.
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I noted an article by Martin Wolf in the FT last week on this blog. In that article, Wolf argued that the UK needed a
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The Office for National Statistics issued new provisional GDP  figures for October 2023 this morning. These are their charts. The first shows the longer term
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