I have been pleased to hear Paul Johnson and Carl Emerson of the Institute for Fiscal Studies criticise both the Labour and Conservative parties’ economic
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A weekend spent trying to avoid some of the discussion going on around the election was worthwhile. At the end of it I had done
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This morning’s short video has now been published. In it I argue that all prime ministers want to be remembered. What will a man as
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In this morning’s main video, I note that far-right commentators – the sort to be found in the Tufton Street think tanks – are suggesting
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As the Guardian has reported: The Labour party has been drawing up options for how it could raise money through extra wealth taxes to help rebuild Britain’s
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This morning’s short video has now been published. In it I argue that Labour has had a long history of funding the arts. Now we
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I have, as usual, published a new video this morning in which I suggest that Rishi Sunak’s very limited legacy will include the creation of
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The best of the day, in which for reasons I am not sure of, I was playing with with monochrome:  

Ely has a newish work of art, which is at least twice life size, that I have rather ignored before today. What I can’t work
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