This extract from Newsnight is deeply telling. 2 minutes on Newsnight last night to say: The government has deliberately created a crisis as a campaign
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What should be done about the housing crisis?
As financial advisers Hargreaves Lansdown note this morning, Nationwide has published its House Price Index for March 2023. As they note: House price slip becomes
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Why are the Tories obsessed with government debt when their record on it is, by the standards they set, so abysmal?
I noted this exchange this from the minutes of the Liaison Committee hearing in parliament this week when Rish Sunak appeared before the chairs of
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BBC Question Time audiences now openly laugh at government ministers
The BBC’s Question Time programme was worth watching last night, largely for the sake of the open derision of the Tory minister who had been
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Johnson and Trump in trouble: it’s something joyous to behold
I was amused by this Telegraph report this morning: Boris Johnson would accept a finding that he recklessly misled Parliament over lockdown parties in order
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26 million, and the biggest month on this blog, ever
I am aware that I have posted a lot of blogs that focus on you, its reader, rather than on the topics the blog usually
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There’s no new money on Green Day
I just posted this on Twitter: Today, according to the government, is ‘Green Day’, when they make clear the next stage in net zero plans.
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Prevarication and fantasy: that’s the Tory way
The ineptitude of our government never ceases to amaze me. The last day or so has provided two further examples. First, there is the fiasco
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Central banks
I have been tackling some more significant glossary entries in between some heavier research and thinking which is going on in the day job right
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