Work on the glossary is advancing: it has now grown to 36,000 words and there are still more than 100 entries to add (and maybe
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Fascism reaches the UK’s courts
The Guardian has reported this morning that: An environmental activist has been jailed for eight weeks after disobeying a judge’s instruction not to mention the
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What is the Bank of England for if its plans for a digital currency are so incoherent?
I do not usually return to a theme the day after I have written about it, but having read John Cunliffe’s speech about digital banking
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The baffling polling statistics
The disillusionment with the Tories is justified. Why is labour riding so high? Are the public really unaware that they are in a great many
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A year ago I said we needed fundamental energy market reform. A year in nothing has happened and we are all paying the price for that
Almost exactly a year ago I wrote the following blog saying that what the UK required was fundamental energy reform, not the tinkering that Sunak
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The UK does not need a digital currency: the vanity of central bankers does
There is much discussion in the media today about the possibility that the Bank of England might create a digital currency for use in the
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Why aren’t we bothered about small business?
I missed this data when it came out, but it seems worth sharing: The first thing to note is that Covid killed one in twelve
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Time to update the blog design?
Two ideas came in last week as a result of the discussion on the glossary. One was from regular commentator Ian Tresman. His suggestion is
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An update on the glossary
When I wrote about the glossary last week I thought it was largely done, barring some accounting issues that I knew were missing. I added
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