We posted this YouTube Short video this lunchtime: This is the transcript: The FTSE 100 has hit new highs in this, the first real trading
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What Badenoch and Starmer have in common
The disconnect between the UK’s politicians and ethics is becoming ever clearer. As John Crace notes in The Guardian today, Kemi Badenoch was in action
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A politics of care will be needed
RobertJ wrote this in a comment on the blog last night (I have edited only very slightly, for presentation purposes): The problem [we have] is
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Glossary entry: sectoral balances
I posted this new glossary entry yesterday afternoon. I was astonished to find I had not written an entry on sectoral balances before now, so
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Are government debt and trade deficits linked – and does it matter?
I was asked this question on the blog yesterday by Anja Cradden: I have a slightly related, slightly tangential question… is there a relationship between
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Why politicians won’t fix affordability
Across the UK and beyond, politicians talk endlessly about affordability — yet nothing improves. Why? Because they are blaming inflation when the real issue is
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