The Bank of England is crashing the UK economy. And apparently, our politicians want to do nothing about that. We really are living in an
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Is the City of London staging a coup against Labour right now?
As I write this, the UK government appears to be under continuing pressure because institutions in the City of London are selling their bonds, forcing
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Radio 2 at 12.30 today – now with after broadcast commentary
I will be on the Jeremy Vine Show on BBC Radio 2 today at about 12.30, discussing Rachel Reeves’ supposed economic crisis. I will be
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How long for Reeves?
I noticed this BBC headline yesterday: Streeting says he is ashamed of NHS winter problems So he should be, of course. Labour could have got
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Why haven’t economic commentators noticed the market mayhem created by the Bank of England?
I am staggered by the commentary being reproduced in all our supposedly informed media about the increase in interest rate costs being suffered by the
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Everything has changed. It is time to consider what we once thought absurd.
This is a headline in The National in Scotland this morning: Donald Trump wants to buy Greenland. Is Scotland next? I am the author of
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Are we all Trumped?
Trump is revealing that he has the type of imperialist plans for geographic expansion of the USA that we thought had departed Western thinking long
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Borrowing costs are high because that’s exactly what the Bank of England wants
As the Guardian noted last night: The UK government’s long-term borrowing costs have reached the highest level since 1998 amid investor concerns over Britain’s sluggish
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Trump is delivering political insanity, or fascism, or both
Headlines in the Guardian and elsewhere make it obvious how dangerous politics is becoming at this moment. Just look at those that follow. First, there
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