I didn’t mean to write this thread this afternoon, but I have just published it on Twitter. Once I’d written the first tweet, which was
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Sunak: mean, cruel, punitive and profoundly unjust
The Sunday Telegraph has this lead article this morning (and I apologise for testing your eyesight): The message from Sunak is unambiguous. After fourteen years
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Central bankers on their ability of banks to create money out of thin air
This incredibly valuable collection of quotes from central banks and bankers on their ability to create money out of thin air was assembled by regular
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Labour has almost nothing to do with socialism, and its religion is mediocrity
Regular reader Ian Lovegrove read the article I wrote on 3 January about Labour’s apparent plans to deliver tax cuts, in which I attacked DSyarmer’s
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Shouldn’t bankers know how banking works?
I have already noted one absurd comment by Sir Howard Davies, the Cahri of NatWest Bank on Radio 4 this morning. But, it was not
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Sir Howard Davies: a man deeply out of touch with reality
I posted this on Twitter about an hour ago: I admit I was not alone in noticing this, or posting it on X (as it
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Labour needs to get real experts who know WTAF they’re doing or risk a one term meltdown
Den Howlett is an old friend of mine. Readers of this blog have a lot to thank him for. He was the accountant and tech
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Some thoughts on accounting for the national debt
During a recent discussion on this blog on how to account for the UK’s so-called national debt, regular commentator and bind expert Clive Parry suggested
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Voting for a leader without a cause has never been a good political idea
Tweets referring to my column in The National in Scotland yesterday seemed to cost me about one hundred Twitter followers last night as Labour supporters
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