My column for The National is out: 'This is one where all those with an interest in Scotland being independent must have an opinion now'
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Just where Biden’s sympathies lie
I missed this a day or so ago, but if anyone has any doubt where Biden’s sympathies lie in this world this should really make
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Inflation is really not a monster about to rear its head
Andy Haldane, soon to be the ex-Cheif Economist of the Bank of England, has an article in the New Statesman this week claiming that all
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Still I rise
A bias towards labour? That wasn’t what I expected to see
The FT has reported this morning that: Companies hard hit by Covid-19 may have to put dividends on hold if they are facing a cash
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The G7, tax and economics
Cash saving makes sense, but let’s put the cash to use in the Green New Deal in that case
I was intrigued to note the data on ISA savings that has recently been issued by the government. This chart might summarise the trend in
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No wonder we have a democratic crisis when journalists seem more interested in defending the wrong doer than they are in questioning what should happen to them
As many will know, The Good Law Project won one of its many judicial review hearings against the government yesterday, showing in the process that
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Why discuss Covid?
It seems rather odd to write a blog post justifying why I think it appropriate to discuss the Covid crisis. It seems to me to
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