The Office for National Statistics has published new GDP data this morning. As they put it: Main points In the three months to October 2025,
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The World Inequality Report 2026 opens with a sentence that should trouble anyone who cares about democracy or economic justice: Inequality is a political choice.
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This is one of a series of posts that will ask what the most pertinent question raised by a prominent influencer of political economy might have been,
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Of all the concepts I noted in my post on making capital controls work this morning, the one likely to be most unfamiliar is Spahn
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The Guardian reported yesterday that Donald Trump has once again been grossly derogatory about the impact of immigrants on European countries. Doing so, he is claiming
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A commentator called Milano asked yesterday: Given today’s highly interconnected plumbing (gilt repo, FX swaps, CCPs, non-bank leverage) and the fact that Thatcher’s government first
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After a night where I spent more time awake than asleep, a few thoughts on an article that caught my attention as my nose and
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Too many campaigners talk about what’s wrong, but never explain what must change or how it could happen. Real campaigning means finding solutions: identifying causes,
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I think people are frightened at the prospect of another crash, which is looking ever more likely. Yesterday’s video has had 156,000 views so far,
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