In this morning’s video, I explore an idea I first wrote about in my book, The Courageous State, in 2011. I suggest that there is
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Do we need any more public inquiries?
The Grenfell Inquiry has now reported seven years after the fire, the causes of which it investigated. With the greatest of respect to the judge
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Of what value is democracy when those in power ignore it?
President Macron of France appointed Michel Barnier as Prime Minister of that country yesterday. By doing so, he has lived up to the neoliberal expectation.
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Moderation today
I am spending much of today at a conference at University College, London that will explore progress on the Accounting Streams project to create a
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Budget representations
If you want to submit a representation to the Treasury in advance of the Budget, you still have a few days to do so. The
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Why are we obsessed with inflation?
In this morning’s video I note that inflation is always a temporary phenomenon that always cures itself. History proves that. In that case to make
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Neoliberalism was the underlying cause of the Grenfell disaster
Musing on what to say about the Grenfell inquiry has been quite hard. Nothing anyone can say can take away the trauma of what happened
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The economics of the Mile End Road in The Guardian
My colleague, Danny Blanchflower, has an article in the Guardian today on some of the ideas that we are putting forward with regard to economic
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Could it be that austerity is a Labour policy and not a choice?
As the Guardian noted yesterday: Investors have rushed to take part in an auction of UK government debt today, in an sign that the new
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