We are heading for a worrying five years under Labour
Sunday, July 16th, 2023Keir Starmer has a piece in The Observer this morning on the virtues of Labour offering a right-wing manifesto to the people of the UK.
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Inflation policy is not only making inflation worse, it’s failing those it should protect.
Tuesday, June 27th, 2023The obsession with inflation that is dominating UK economic policy at present has some justification, but only if the proposed remedies are better than the
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HMRC dissembled (at best) when proposing Making Tax Digital, as I exposed in 2017. Now it is time to end this fiasco.
Tuesday, June 13th, 2023As the FT noted yesterday: HM Revenue & Customs omitted key figures from its business case about how much its Making Tax Digital programme will
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Accountability is at the core of good government. The Covid inquiry has already proved that the Tories do not know that.
Wednesday, May 31st, 2023The government has got itself into a complete mess over the Covid inquiry. There is no one to blame but itself. As I noted yesterday,
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The Bank of England is in for a rude awakening because people have had enough of being told they must accept being worse off
Wednesday, April 26th, 2023Bank of England chief economist Huw Pill said yesterday that we all need to get used to the idea of being poorer. At one level,
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Labour is making a complete fool of itself on its NHS promises
Monday, April 17th, 2023Labour are continuing to make complete and utter fools of themselves, this time on the NHS: This is total nonsense. Doubling the number of doctors
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Groupthink creates Bank failure and prevents banking reform
Tuesday, March 14th, 2023Groupthink is immensely powerful. As I noted yesterday: KPMG issued a clean audit report on the 31 December 2022 accounts of Silicon Valley Bank on
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First they came for Gary Lineker
Saturday, March 11th, 2023I wonder if the BBC executives really thought about what they were doing by taking on Gary Lineker because he told the truth. They objected
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Cleaning up Sunak and Johnson’s mess
Monday, February 27th, 2023Rishi Sunak will hope he gets a deal on Northern Ireland today. So do I. Most especially for the people of Northern Ireland. It is
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