How to pay for financial education
Monday, February 10th, 2025Everyone but the government seems to agree that young people need a proper education in finance before leaving school, and there is a pot of
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The old narratives are dead. We are waiting for the new to be born
Monday, December 23rd, 2024The Office for National Statistics has reported this morning that: UK real gross domestic product (GDP) is estimated to have shown no growth in Quarter
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What now, Rachel Reeves?
Saturday, December 14th, 2024The latest figures for the UK’s GDP suggest that growth is flatlining, and the problem with that for Rachel Reeves is that everything Labour said
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Talking helps find solutions. Labels don’t.
Monday, December 9th, 2024Politico this morning highlights one consequence of the incredibly rapid change in power in Syria. As they note in a newsletter: Can we chat with
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Bitcoin: questions needing answers
Thursday, November 14th, 2024Katie Martin, a member of the FT editorial board, has noted the massive increase in the value of cryptocurrencies since the election of Trump in
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Trump is promoting the idea of utterly reckless government, using the USA as his testbed for doing so
Monday, November 11th, 2024Andrew Rawnsley, yesterday in The Observer, and Martin Wolf, today in the FT, both have articles on the nightmare that a Trump government is creating
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Are the rich going to leave?
Saturday, October 12th, 2024In the run-up to the budget, I have seen claims that as many as one in five people are planning to leave the UK because
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£4 million from Cayman? That will do nicely, thank you
Thursday, September 19th, 2024As Open Democracy has revealed: The Labour Party’s largest-ever donation came from a Cayman Islands-registered hedge fund with shares worth hundreds of millions of pounds
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The way we are is unsustainable
Monday, September 16th, 2024The FT is full of questions about what Rachel Reeves is doing. As it notes: Cutting public investment in the UK would damage the “foundations
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