The FT notes this morning that: Rishi Sunak has been warned by senior Conservatives that he would face a significant rebellion and certain defeat in
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What Truss got wrong
There must be some politically aware, people who have not seen or heard of Liz Truss’ 4,000-word article in the Sunday Telegraph today, in which
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The UK is facing economic failure on a grand scale, and the Bank of England is just compounding it
The 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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Who has caused inflation in the UK?
I posted this tweet last night and it seems to have been both popular and the inspiration for a lot of comments: Who has caused
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Housewives and Downing Street
A couple of weeks ago I posted a few pages from the 1935 book ‘Housewives And Downing Street’ which provided one possible explanation of the
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New tech for the blog
I realised recently that the time had come to replace both my iPad and my aging iPhone, not least because battery lives do eventually fade,
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Solvency II in the New Economy Brief
A newsletter worth subscribing to is that all of the New Economy Brief. This comes form their latest newsletter and covered an important topic in
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A glossary of economics, tax and accounting
A year ago I was setting out on writing a book. That book was one of the casualties of my long-Covid in the second half
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Things might, and can, only get worse
This chart is from the New Statesman: Let me be honest. I really do not think that is a likely election result. I suspect the
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