The latest video is out: The data I quote comes from the Office for National Statistics. My message is simple: wealth taxes are not politically
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How likely are interest rate rises?
The debt fetishists, like former Chancellor Sajid Javid, who are demanding that the government keeps borrowing under what they term to be control do so
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Monday morning thoughts
I fear that the worst is yet to come
I did not work this weekend. That was a deliberate choice. It’s been a deeply fatiguing few months. I don’t regret the effort. I am
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What is money?
My new video, out this morning, addresses a critical question. As I say in the video, this is a theme I will return to. There
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Sunday thoughts….on freeports
The Telegraph is promoting Rishi Sunak’s favourite theme – which is freeports – this morning. I suspect that’s not by chance. I said to myself
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Saturday morning thoughts
Is HMRC being Orwellian?
It’s easy to forget that the day job of Winston Smith in 1984 was rewriting history. As Orwell said: Who controls the past controls the future.
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Will water become an issue in independence politics in the UK?
I note a fascinating article in the Guardian that suggested that parts of England might run out if water within twenty years. This is, apparently, the view
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