This morning headline from the Guardian’s daily briefing of stories is pretty telling: However, Keir Starmer has followed a different line on this. He has
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A ‘QE for the planet’ in the New Statesman
The Bank of England really should not send out the wrong signals to markets – it’s incompetent, at best
From the Bank of England this lunchtime. After all the huff and puff about increasing rates they did not – leaving markets dashed in their
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Congratulations to the OECD on a job well done – and can we now move on to the next goals for tax justice?
I have sent the letter that follows to Pascal St Amans, head of tax at the OECD, this morning. The signatories were all involved in
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The vain futility of financiers
Bankers like to think that they are the masters of the universe. Central bankers are the worst kind of bankers in this regard. The actions
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Scotonomics and the Green New Deal
I did a Youtube meeting with the Scotonomics team of Kairin van Sweeden and William Thomson last night, roaming over a whole range of green
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A Tory Prime Minister commands the absolute support of his party until the moment that they do not, and Johnson can only humiliate his MPs so often before they’ll have had enough of his corruption
There is universal condemnation of the Tory vote to find MP Owen Paterson not guilty of offences he very clearly committed yesterday. When the Mail
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Brandolini’s law
Malcolm Reavell introduced me to the idea of Brandolini’s Law on a post on the Facebook page of Modern Money Scotland. Wikipedia summarises the law
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Has the right succeeded in dropping democratic degradation so steadily into our systems of government that we have not noticed, and still aren’t?
I have already noted this morning that Trump is looking as if he might return in the USA. I have also noted the UK government’s
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