The Hartlepool by-election result is a wipeout for Labour: That is only the second by-election gain for a party in office in 40 years. It
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Once upon a time the country was obsessed with the balance of payments and now we’re not. In this video I explain why.

My column in The National in Scotland published yesterday is one that could have been written just as easily for here. For copyright reasons you have
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Some readers of this blog will recall that last December I invited those with concern about environmental change to comment to the International Financial Reporting
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I hear people saying inflation is coming and so too will interest rates be on the way up. I don’t think significant inflation is at all
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The news is making much of the government’s decision to send gunboats to Jersey today to protect the island, which is a British Crown Dependency,
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I was shocked by this story in the Guardian this morning: Artists and musicians have accused the government of neglecting the country’s “cultural national health”
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I know the author of this tweet, quite well: And I agree with it.

Ruth Strachan, who strikes me as a pretty thorough journalist, has written a review of the economics of Scottish independence in the Investment Monitor, available
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