I hear people saying inflation is coming and so too will interest rates be on the way up. I don’t think significant inflation is at all
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The news is making much of the government’s decision to send gunboats to Jersey today to protect the island, which is a British Crown Dependency,
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I was shocked by this story in the Guardian this morning: Artists and musicians have accused the government of neglecting the country’s “cultural national health”
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I know the author of this tweet, quite well: And I agree with it.

Ruth Strachan, who strikes me as a pretty thorough journalist, has written a review of the economics of Scottish independence in the Investment Monitor, available
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The Guardian has reported new polling by the Coop Party on tax justice related issues. As they note: Boris Johnson’s government lacks public trust to
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As the covid crisis was developing in March 2020 I argued that one of the first requirements from the government was rent holidays.  As I
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Summary This is a long post that was first published in July 2020 and which addresses one of the most sensitive issues in the Scottish
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These were the notes for the talk I gave on funding the Green New Deal last night for Brave New Europe: Funding the Green New
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