Every now and again the Guardian slips through a Modern Monetary Theory editorial. Today is one of those days. It begins: A great deal of
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The British Medical Journal had an editorial last week that pulled no punches. It began by saying: Politicians and governments are suppressing science. They do
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As the Financial Times has noted: Pret A Manger, Hugo Boss and the UK’s largest independent toy retailer have been threatened with legal action by
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I suspect many readers of this blog are not readers of the Sunday Times. Nor am I. I do not have a subscription. But it
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I am not optimistic about the survival chances of a great many businesses in the U.K. as a result of coronavirus, but the government must
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I wrote this post for the Class think tank, yesterday: The start of a new period of lockdown across much of the UK requires a
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Videos are back. Mark is feeling better. My sense of pessimism about the government’s response to the crisis that we face continues, however:

I wrote this tweet yesterday: Three things will bring businesses down next year. Interest payments. Loan repayments. And rent payments. It is the rentier economy
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Like many, I suspect, I spent yesterday evening in a state of fevered anger with a government and Prime Minister so incompetent that they could
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