I have this letter in the Guardian this morning: Two comments on my letter concerning the use of People’s Quantitative Easing to buy out PFI (27 September) in
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Victor Xing has an article in the FT today in which he discusses the now widely understood and adverse distributional consequences of QE that I
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Colin Hines and I have this letter in the Guardian this morning:  Zoe Williams is right: another credit crunch-induced “crash” is likely and the only
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All ideas ideas have their moments. Some of them are pivotal. The trouble is knowing when those pivotal tipping points arrive. Post Hurricane Harvey in
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Following the hard to believe NIESR forecast that the UK was likely to grow quite well in the next year sane voices basing their arguments
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A regular reader of this blog wrote to me after I wrote about the abandonment of rail electrification to Swansea, saying: I am an electrical
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The Tories announced the scrapping of two major rail electrification schemes last week. One was the Midland main line. The other the Cardiff to Swansea
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The following article by me was published in the Observer on 14 July 2002. Not that much has changed since, and my sentiment remains largely
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Theresa May wants Labour’s support for her ailing premiership. It’s an interesting idea: a quasi-grand coalition. I can’t think of any reason why Labour should
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