I posted this on Twitter this morning: The question is serious, and gets to the core of the Farage canpaign. The object of Farage, Sunak,
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Why the OBR’s view of the economy is so wrong
I posted this thread on Twitter this morning. It is a discussion of the Office for Budget Responsibility’s latest long-term report and forecast issued this
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Why we now need above inflation rate pay rises – and why they are not inflationary
I posted this thread on Twitter this morning: The government and the Bank of England are again calling today for wage restraint to beat inflation
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Bank of England employees did very nicely in the last year, thank you very much
I thought it was time I took a look at the latest accounts from the Bank of England, which bizarrely are, as ever, to 28th
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George Osborne’s legacy is a fourfold increase in malnutrition in England
The Times has reported today that: Almost 11,000 people in England were hospitalised with malnutrition last year, as doctors warned that the cost of living
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We need a new economics. But who will pay attention when most people are paid to adhere to the economics that is failing us?
It is a morning of very mixed messages on the economy. According to the FT: Chancellor Jeremy Hunt will on Monday set out a series
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It’s time the politicians opposed to our well-being stopped condemning Just Stop Oil protests.
I put this on Twitter last night: All those years of austerity. The NHS in ruins as a result. The absence of any effective climate
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If only the government preferred people to bankers we’d all be more than £30 billion better off
I posted this thread on Twitter this morning: This year the government will give the UK’s banks £45 billion they have done nothing to earn.
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Sunak’s abandonment of his climate commitments is political failure on an epic scale
As The Guardian notes this morning: The government is drawing up plans to drop the UK’s flagship £11.6bn climate and nature funding pledge, the Guardian can
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