Rachel Reeves trolled the left in yesterday’s fiscal statement. She unveiled what is obviously going to be her new mantra. Her claim, repeated several times,
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Netanyahu’s attempt to eliminate Palestinians is not just abhorrent; it is also a crime.
Nesrine Malik has a powerful article in the Guardian this morning in which she discusses the normalisation of the genocide in Gaza, as represented by
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Rachel Reeves is going for broke
Rachel Reeves is going to tell parliament today that the UK’s financial situation is far worse than she thought before becoming Chancellor. I wish her
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Pay rises for teachers and the NHS will pay for themselves
I published this video this morning. In it, I argue that while the government will agonise over the cost of paying NHS workers and teachers
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Let’s talk about capital
There has been a lot of debate on this blog recently about the way in which I use the word capital. I have used it
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‘ Both of them are talking a load of nonsense’
I just noticed LBC had clipped my interview with Vanessa Feltz yesterday and put it out in Twitter: 'Both of them are talking a load
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East Anglian heat
I was, as is often the case, on the Kingfisher Bridge Nature Reserve this morning. Natural fractals were to be seen: The last of the
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Banks don’t lend out depositors’ money
I published the second video in the Economic Truths series this morning. In it, I note that most people think banks take in deposits from
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A good start to the Economic Truths series
Yesterday’s first substantive post in the Economic Truths series seemed to meet expectations. So far it has been viewed 15,300 times on YouTube, with most
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