I posted my tweets in response to Andrew Neil’s comments on Scottish currency here, yesterday. Last night one of the many responses was this one:
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Amazon can get it right
I try not to buy from Amazon, but it’s sometimes a useful place to look for a reference, like an ISBN number. This morning they
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How many U turns can a government make?
No one is surprised that this government made mistakes when dealing with coronavirus. Everyone would have done. Dealing with the unknown is always going to
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If government debt cannot be repaid – and in a technical sense it’s not possible to do so in a country like the UK – then why don’t we call it capital?
The issues I have raised in my discussion on what I consider to be the misstatement of government debt by the Office for National Statisticsin
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Addressing Andrew Neil on Scottish currency issues
Andrew Neil was ranting (I think it’s fair to say) on Twitter yesterday on Scottish independence and Scottish currency issues, so I wrote a thread
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The UK government’s Office for National Statistics has got its data on the national debt wrong, and it is deliberate
I was aware I was being controversial yesterday when I suggested that the Office for National Statistics was lying about the scale of UK national
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The UK’s national debt is not £2 trillion – it’s only £1,270 billion – and there’s nothing exceptional about that, at all
The Office for National Statistics claimed that the so-called UK national debt was £2 trillion this morning. To be candid, I think that’s a politically
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PWC: taking their time is to be welcomed
I was intrigued by an article in the FT which suggested that: PwC UK will delay publishing its annual results until next year as it
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The reality of Covid-19 is already hitting smaller business supply chains and their chances of survival but the government seems wholly unaware of it
I had a fascinating conversation with the manager of a local business yesterday. The discussion was about her stock displays. It was apparent that she
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