My long-term critic, Tim Worstall, had a go at me on the Adam Smith Institute blog yesterday for comments I made that were published in
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The Bank of England is engaged in the most massive class warfare
I posted this thread on Twitter today in response to noises coming out of the Bank of England on the need for interest rate increases:
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Thoughts amid the wreckage
There is a rule in our house that phones do not come to the table. Three of us ate together last evening, all pretty avid
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Where the market fails, the state has to step in
Polly Toynbee picked up on my ideas published at the weekend on a strategy for the left, saying in her column in the Guardian this
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The Tories economic plan is intended to deliver misery, disruption, chaos, and shattered lives
I posted this thread on Twitter this morning: Sunak and Johnson said yesterday that the Bank of England has to act to tackle inflation caused
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Tax havens are in effect the aircraft carriers from which assaults on major democratic states and their policies can be launched. No wonder Russia loves them.
I wrote this more than ten years ago (with minor changes to tenses to suit the new context): Feral capitalism is the unfettered, wild form
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Andrew Bailey is right to forecast deep economic woe for the UK because that’s exactly what he’s planning on delivering
As the Guardian notes this morning: Britons should expect to suffer a more severe bout of inflation than other major economies during the current energy
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What can we do about a government that is in denial of climate change? Very little, except boot them out.
As the Guardian notes this morning: The government is failing to enact the policies needed to reach the UK’s net zero targets, its statutory advisers
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We have a duty to oppose this government because it is abandoning both democracy and the rule of law
We live in a country where logic has departed from political debate. On Monday evening the government had legislation make progress in the House of
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