A comment was posted by regular commentator Kit W-N overnight on yesterday’s proposal to issue bonds to reconnect public savings with public purpose. The issues
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The supposed need for increased UK defence spending – although on what no one seems to know – and the claim by Keir Starmer that
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There is a reason why I pay to subscribe to the Daily Telegraph. It comes from the schadenfreude that I get when they have to
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The Economist’s Charlemagne newsletter this weekend carried an intriguing message. Faced with soaring temperatures across western Europe, it suggested that people should stop feeling guilty
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If Andy Burnham is serious about becoming prime minister, then there are a series of questions he needs to answer before anyone can sensibly judge
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This post is one of an ongoing series explaining Richard Murphy’s views on significant topics in economics, political economy, politics, taxation, and accounting. It should
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I am aware that many people here seem to have enjoyed the podcast discussions that John Christensen and I have had over the last 6
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The Telegraph reports in a morning newsletter headline today that: One million children to be claiming disability benefits next year They add, and I make
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Being a Cassandra is never popular. I was talking to two young people of my acquaintance yesterday, and forecast that their holiday plans for a
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