Rishi Sunak will sound super confident today. He will sing the praises of his budget to a very largely empty House of Commons, and will
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Budget day
Today is, of course, Budget day. Although how much there will be left fo the Chancellor to say is hard to work out given the
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Why Twitter?
For the first few years that I was on Twitter I had an ambiguous relationship with it. Whilst my commitment to this blog has remained
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Everything you’ve been told about Scotland and national debt is wrong
I have an article under the above title in The National newspaper in Scotland this afternoon. As this is an article I was paid to
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What is the debt repayment obsession all about?
I just posted this on Twitter: From 1946 to 2021 is 75 years. In 63 of those years the UK government borrowed. In 12 it
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The national debt paranoia
It felt like the morning for a Twitter thread on the national debt. I just published this: We have just had another week when the
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What my fantasy Radio 4 interview sounds like
As I have already noted this morning, I would love a politician to bite back against an interviewer asking the inane questions in the so-called
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The interview I want to hear on Radio 4
I have been asked by some politicians to answer the question ‘How we should we deal with the mountain of Covid debt?’ which is the
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Economics and Scottish independence
I know Alex Salmond was in the news for some other reasons last week, but he also spent some time interviewing me. This was the
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