I have already done the first in a mini-series of videos on the issues that QE (quantitative easing) is giving rise to, how we can
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Looking forward to recovery may be a touch too optimistic as yet
According to the Guardian: Boris Johnson has told business leaders that efficient delivery of the coronavirus vaccine is Britain’s best economic recovery tool as he
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Brexit is failing and the two leading parties are determined to block consideration of any alternatives. So where does that leave us?
I tweeted this last night: Just checking when would be the right time to admit that we’ve given Brexit a go and it really is
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What are the problems with QE?
Twelve years ago quantitative easing was considered radical. It was called ‘unconventional’ monetary policy. Actually, it was government just using the power it has to create money
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Just as the UK announces it plans to be a tax haven it has to announce an investigation into corruption on the British Virgin Islands
I mentioned this morning the confirmation that the UK government has made that it plans to turn the UK into a tax haven. I made
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Of all the taxes to raise council tax is just about the most unfair
The Times has reported that: Council tax in some areas is set to be increased up to eight times the rate of inflation next month.
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Now it is official: we are to become Singapore-on-Thames
The Times has reported this morning that: Boris Johnson will hold talks with business leaders today about cutting red tape as ministers draw up plans
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Corporation tax should increase, but for none of the reasons it thinks
Paul Lewis correctly, I am sure, assumes an official source for this comment in The Times: Budget speculation gathers pace as kites are flown to
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We totter on the brink of extremism at present: there are no such things as ‘less valuable’ lives
It struck me over the weekend just how brutal our society is becoming. Take this tweet, and the video to which it refers, as an
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