I posted this in Twitter last night having noticed praise being posted for Rishi Sunak. That praise contrasted his performance in this crisis to that
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Mythbuster: We can’t afford the interest on the national debt
Myth We can’t afford the interest on all the money the government it is borrowing. We’ll never afford anything else if we borrow at this
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I must not equate government budgets with household budgets
The scientists will not accept responsibility for the excess deaths the government is about to deliver
I think this is an important development: This is hugely important. SAGE members rebelling & speaking out: too early to lift lockdown. The ‘clear science
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Mythbuster: We have to repay the national debt
The myth We have to repay the national debt. Reply The reply – 1 We never have! It’s been rising almost constantly since it began.
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The Bank of England has pretty much answered the question ‘who is going to pay for this?’ They are.
Michael Saunders of the Bank of England Monetary Policy Committee gave a speech yesterday that was worthy of attention. He said this: With the collapse
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Johnson may survive the Cummings crisis but his days are still numbered
It would seem that Johnson thinks he can keep Cummings, simply by grinding down the media until they give up the demand that he go,
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£30 billion would be a useful start for the climate transition that we need, but we will need very much more
I have long argued for a Green New Deal. So, of course, I welcome this news in The Guardian yesterday: The UK needs to invest
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Understanding the myths that need to be tackled
I have now done some analysis on all the answers to the question I raised last weekend on the economic, and other, myths that need
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