Jolyon Maugham wrote a blog with the first part of the above title yesterday afternoon. It was quite explicitly an attack on Jeremy Corbyn’s use
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The RBS sale: a tale of opportunity lost
RBS is to begin its return to the private sector. Way back in October 2008 I suggested it should be fully nationalised instead. I stick to
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People’s QE could consign PFI to history
I spent a lot of time yesterday talking about what Jeremy Corbyn has called People’s Quantitative Easing, which I had previously called Green Infrastructure Quantitative Easing. I
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The slowest recovery
My friend Geoff Tily, who is chief economist at the TUC, did some number crunching on the state of the recovery that was published yesterday.
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My World at One interview on Corbynomics
I was interviewed on the Radio 4 programme World at One today on the subject of Corbynomics. What I had to say can be heard
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Chris Leslie has got Corbynomics wrong
I noted a report in the Independent yesterday about comments that the shadow chancellor, Chris Leslie, had made about why he called Corbynomics. These are,
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If only we had a land value tax
The FT notes this morning that: Buyers spent £1.8bn on land for property development in central London in the second quarter of 2015, according to
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If there are no UK investment banks left why do we risk our economy on their behalf?
The FT has noted today that with Barclays having announced the end of its global investment banking strategy there are no UK investment banks left.
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UK migrant policy is taking us to a place no one should contemplate going
The FT reports this morning that: James Brokenshire, the immigration minister, said on Sunday that the government wanted to show the UK was not a
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