If, as expected, Rachel Reeves increases employers’ national insurance next week, and she doesn’t compensate the NHS, education, local authorities and other departments for the
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Stephanie Kelton on modern monetary theory
I was surprised to see Novara Media publish an interview with Stephanie Kelton on modern monetary theory as historically they have been very resistant to
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Subcontracting is the curse of the modern economy
The UK economy is now a mess built on the foundations of everyone sub-contracting everything they can whenever they think that possible. The result is
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What is a ‘working person’?
Keir Starmer does not know what a working person is. As the FT notes this morning: Sir Keir Starmer said on Thursday that anyone who
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G.O.A.L – a government owned allocation lever
In my blog post on my personal plans this morning, I noted that I think that it is essential that we now spend our time
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Finding a better song to sing
Introduction to this post I thought I should share the following on this blog because I have done so with a number of my colleagues
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Governments can’t have black holes, whatever ministers might say
Labour ministers have been talking about ‘black holes’ in the government’s finances ever since they got into office, but technically such a thing is an
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Neoliberalism rules, even in football
As the FT notes this morning: The UK has dropped a requirement for a new men’s football regulator to consider “foreign and trade policy” when
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The risk that Andrew Bailey will bring the economy down remains very high
Two reports in the FT grabbed my attention this morning. The first concerns comments made by Andrew Bailey, Governor of the Bank of England, at
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