We’re told that competition makes everything better — cheaper, fairer, more efficient. But when it comes to banks, that’s a myth. Six giant institutions dominate
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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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RobertJ asked a question on this blog yesterday that goes to the heart of how I believe that we should think about belonging, identity, and
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A Guardian headline this morning says: However, the news is that Starmer has no intention of giving Lucy Powell a job back in the Cabinet.
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Economics isn’t just about spreadsheets. It’s about people, power, and place. In this video, filmed in Ely, where I live, I explore what my friend
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I commented on the prospects for the Irish presidential election yesterday. Today, we have a first hint of the outcome: You can say the post
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According to The Spectator this morning, ‘Britain is frozen with fear’, or so its main headline for the day says. When, however, you look at
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Democracy really is under threat in the USA. Almost unmentioned by the media in the UK, it is grinding to a halt. This comes from
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As a matter of policy, we are now posting some polls with related discussion on YouTube, with the material being derived from non-video content here,
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