Just in case anyone is not aware, these are my priorities for the next few days: I need time to birdwatch, walk, sit over a
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I was recently reading the introduction to James Hoffmann’s World Atlas of Coffee, which someone in our house seems to have because this is a
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This is from the Bank of England statement on the interest rate change decision made yesterday: At its meeting ending on 5 November 2025, the
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The government says there’s a “black hole” in the public finances — but the black hole is really in our hospitals, schools, and local councils,
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Ignorance about money is set to become an even more important feature of UK politics, it would seem. As the FT has reported: A former
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This is one of a series of posts that will ask what the most pertinent question raised by a prominent influencer of political economy might have been,
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I did this podcast with Xander Elliards of The National on Monday (and I wish they’d told me my lens was dirty: I had no
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I have resisted the idea of doing public events associated with this blog and my YouTube channel for a long time. It’s always been the
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Nationalism can be a politics of care — about belonging, culture, and democracy — or a politics of control, built on fear and exclusion. In
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