As Andrew Bailey of the Bank of England noted yesterday when giving evidence in the House of Commons, interest rates are rising around the world
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I am already immensely bored by the Angela Rayner stamp duty story. For the record, I doubt she will survive this episode in office. Her
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The Global Initiative for Fiscal Transparency (GIFT), the International Budget Partnership (IBP) and the University of Sheffield have launched a major new training programme on
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A new commentator left the following comment on this blog after my most recent video. They started with a quote from me: ‘And bonds in
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Britain now has a very strange relationship with protest. Some protests are treated as if they were an existential threat to the state. Others, which
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As The Guardian reports this morning: Prominent women including cultural figures, politicians and campaigners have signed a letter criticising rightwing attempts to link sexual violence
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This post was nearly complete yesterday when the MacBook on which I was writing it failed. I am told that when it is repaired, most
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As the Guardian noted yesterday: Reform UK has engaged in a war of words with the Church of England over the party’s plans to deport all
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This image is from Twitter, yesterday: As The Guardian reported: Five people have been arrested at a protest in London where a group of masked
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