Larry Elliott has an article I want to signpost in the Guardian this morning. It’s worth reading in full, and not just because he’s another
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Good news for Scotland yesterday. As Common Space noted: Today Scottish Government published its implementation plan for a Scottish National Investment Bank. This proposal –
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As the Guardian reports this morning: Taxpayers will be forced to hand over nearly £200bn to contractors under private finance deals for at least 25
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The supposed advantage of PFI is that the risk of contracts going wrong is passed from the government to a contractor. There are two flaws
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The FT would seem to have an important message in its pages for the UK Chancellor this morning. As they note: The UK bond market
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Jack James has advised me that this motion was passed at the Labour Party North West Regional Conference last weekend: Conference welcomes the manifesto promise
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According to the Times (behind a paywall) these are the priorities for UK national investment according to the UK public right now, as recounted to
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It is a long time since I first wrote about the merits, as I saw them, of local authority bonds as the basis for local
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I spoke at the  COSLA  conference this afternoon. COSLA represents local authorities in Scotland. This was my second visit to their conference.  It was good to
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