I am not the first person to note that government ministers were lying through their back teeth about the benefits of Brexit yesterday. On this
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This blog began in June 2006. In that same month I wrote about the activities of Sir Philip Green. I had just taken part in
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I have been asked by a number of people, from MPs onwards, to prepare answers to the types of questions being commonly asked about the
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The Conservative’s obsession with debt repayment was on display in the House of Commons yesterday. As I noted when live-tweeting on comments made by MPs
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Rishi Sunak’s Spending Review is one of those budgets (which this was, in all but name) that was always destined to go wrong. After all,
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The world is obsessed by quantitative easing and borrowing. But it is a simple accounting fact that for every borrower their must be a saver.
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As the Guardian reports this morning: The government has privately admitted the UK faces an increased likelihood of “systemic economic crisis” as it completes its
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The Guardian’s morning briefing  includes this paragraph today: The chancellor’s second mini-budget of the pandemic will lay bare the government’s fears over the long-lasting impact
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Channel 4’s Dispatches programme last night made clear how disastrous has been our government’s management of the coronavirus crisis. Anthony Barnett laid out in his
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