Yesterday’s IT outage was serious and debilitating. It clearly had an effect on some readers of this blog because traffic was well down early in
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Saving for intergenerational solidarity
My Green New Deal and Finance for the Future colleague, Colin Hines, had this letter in The Guardian this morning: Nesrine Malik is right that
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Will Labour restore the right to protest?
I posted this on Twitter yesterday: Protestors seeking to draw attention to the desperate plight of our planet have been sent to prison for four
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Shouldn’t we be celebrating recent record national savings?
There is new national debt data out today. This was my reaction to the announcement from the Office for National Statistics on Twitter: I am
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Why growth, Rachel Reeves?
Starmer: putting himself in the history books at cost to us all
As the Guardian has noted: UK fruit and vegetable production has plummeted as farms have been hit by extreme weather. They have added: The country
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Labour should be putting the UK’s savings to use instead of turning to foreign capital
The Bank of England has reported this morning that: Household deposits with banks and building societies rose by £5.3 billion in May. This was driven
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I can’t wait for the 5th of July
In this morning’s video, I argue that after 5 July, the hard work begins. Then, we have to work out how truly socially transformative ideas
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Talking economic policy with the Scottish Greens
Continuing my series of interviews with economic commentators pro-independence politicians in Scotland, the National has now issued my interview with Scottish Green MSP, Ross Greer:
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