I was driving to Welney to birdwatch and have a coffee yesterday, and suddenly saw a strange, large black bird in the fields to my
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Why the government is nothing like a household
Politicians constantly claim that the government must “live within its means”, just like any family. In this video, I explain why the household analogy is
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Does the US Congress know what socialism is?
This ridiculous motion was passed by the US Congress yesterday (since the Senate apparently approved this resoltuon by the House), timed as a snub to
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Economic questions: the Thomas Paine question
This is one of a series of posts that will ask what the most pertinent question raised by a prominent influencer of political economy might have been,
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Re-moralising economic life is not an optional extra
I noted comments from RobertJ and long-time commentator PSR on this blog recently about morals and the acquisition of money (as PSR put it), and felt it
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Extortion from the gullible and innocent
I screenshot this chart yesterday afternoon: I could be wrong, but I get the feeling that people are rumbling the fact that Bitcoin is a
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The Alternative Budget 2025, Part 7: The politics of care
Rachel Reeves will be presenting her Budget on November 26, if the Labour government of which she is a part lasts that long. I will
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Why did Britain stop making?
For forty years we were told that Britain didn’t need manufacturing — finance would make us rich. That experiment has failed. We import more than
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AI and the Budget
One to watch for in next week’s Budget and associated forecasts is the suggested impact of AI on employment rates in the UK. The FT
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