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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The UK is facing economic failure on a grand scale, and the Bank of England is just compounding it
Friday, February 3rd, 2023The Bank of England Monetary Policy Committee report issued yesterday makes grim reading. These charts are all from the first chapter on the economic outlook:
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The state we're in
Wednesday, January 11th, 2023I gave a talk to a combined meeting of Oxford for Europe and Cambridge for Europe last night entitled ‘The State We’re In’. These were
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Chaos, incompetence, inflation and long-Covid: 2022 in retrospect
Wednesday, December 28th, 20222022 was not a great year. It may go down as memorable because of war and all is consequences. But that’s not a reason to
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Incompetence on this scale should be unimaginable
Friday, November 4th, 2022This was posted on The Mirror website last night: The article is readily available on line. I began by saying: The Bank of England has increased interest rates today
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The only winners from Truss are those who want to impose austerity on the UK
Saturday, October 15th, 2022I posted this on Twitter this morning: We have our fourth Chancellor since July. There is not a person on earth who can suggest that
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We need a courageous state
Friday, October 14th, 2022I posted this thread on the courageous state on Twitter this morning: I have done a lot of Twitter threads of late on how worrying
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We need to be rid of the toxic Tories who threaten our well-being and seek to deliver fascism
Friday, October 7th, 2022I can remember when Conservatives were serious people, with experience of real life that they brought to the task of government. I am not saying
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We need constitutional reform to tackle the malaise in British politics
Saturday, May 28th, 2022There is a deep malaise in British politics (I use the term deliberately). We are all fatigued by Johnson’s antics and incompetence, but that is
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