The SNP’s new leader is Humza Yousaf. He beat Kate Forbes by the notorious margin of 52% to 48% on second preferences. There is no
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Yesterday’s polls
Thanks to all who voted in the three polls I posted yesterday. I do note the results as they come in. I appreciate the comments
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What is Labour up to?
I know there are those who do not like me questioning Labour when it seems very likely they might be the next government. I, however,
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Only Keynesianism supplied banking stability: everything else has failed
This chart was in the FT yesterday. I note it because there was one era when bank failure virtually disappeared. It was the post-war Keynesian
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We are living in a world of increasing financial threats
I recoded this interview on Friday with Crispin Flintoff of the ‘Not the Andrew Marr Show’, which he puts out on Sunday. Nothing has changed
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You and this blog
In a recent poll I asked if Tax Research needed a mobile phone app. The answer was was follows: The answer seemed to be an
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Should we pay MPs more?
I have already discussed whether a wealthy person can be a successful prime minister this morning. A related issue that came up in my Times
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Can an ultra-wealthy person be a successful prime minister?
A couple of times in the last week I have been on radio to discuss whether a really wealthy person could ever truly understand the
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There should be no place in the House of Lords for Mark Littlewood
As has been widely reported, Liz Truss is apparently planning to appoint Mark Littlewood of the Institute of Economic Affairs, as well as other far-right
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