I have already mentioned that I spent some of yesterday at an event at Queen Mary, University of London, discussing the future of water companies
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Is the BBC deliberately slighting the SNP?
This tweet, posted yesterday, is entirely fair: Staggeringly, the BBC failed to include the SNP’s list in its summary of who the leaders of the
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Will Starmer appease Russia?
Today’s YouTube short video is this: You can watch it here. The transcript is: It’s quite likely that Trump will be re-elected as President of
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Keir Starmer wants to maximize wealth in the UK
In my latest YouTube video I note that if a government can influence the distribution of wealth in an economy – and we know that
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Is Labour going to increase taxes, after all?
Will Labout use at least some of the recommendations in the Taxing Wealth Report 2024? It seems possible. The FT has reported this morning that:
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There is a vacuum in our politics. Who will fill it?
As some readers will know, Danny Blanchflower and I (he, at one time of the Bank of England monetary policy committee) have sometimes referred to
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