The Bank of England has left base rates at 4.5% today. Whilst I maintain my view the interest rates in the UK are far too
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Torsten Bell displaying his true neoliberal colours
This comes from Newsnight on Tuesday night. Victoria Derbyshire, who is one of the best interviewers the BBC now has, was interviewing Torsten Bell, the
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Reeves is going to do austerity next week
According to the FT: Chancellor Rachel Reeves will not raise taxes in next week’s Spring Statement, Labour officials said, as they tried to dismiss Conservative
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When young people can’t afford homes why shouldn’t they be angry?
I have admitted to being angry this morning. I listed a long list of reasons for being so. I omitted this, from the FT this
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With so much going wrong in our world, being angry is the thing to be.
Anger has a bad name. Too often, we’re now told being angry is unacceptable. That, though, is just the forces of power trying to impose
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Wealth tax, or increased taxes on the income and gains from wealth?
I have listened to Gary Stevenson’s latest video, issued this weekend, to which I provide a link below. Several things stood out for me in
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I don’t apologise for being so angry
I might appear to be angry of late. The reason is that I am. I am incandescent with Labour and its callous indifference to people.
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The government says it must cut benefits for the disabled. They are completely wrong.
The government says it must balance its books and benefits cost too much, so they must be cut. Nothing could be further from the truth.
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Kendall’s performative callousness
Liz Kendall claimed yesterday that the benefits budget will fall by £5 billion by 2029, which is mysteriously the supposed sum by which it is
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