This is why people have died from Covid in exceptional numbers in the UK, and why many more will do so, as yet: Trade used
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Tea, toast and marmalade. A warm Saturday morning in the garden. And time to reflect on a week. A week when people in England began
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As far as I know Sarah Murphy is not a relative of mine. I mention her because she is great on Twitter, and this is typical
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There is quite a lot of fuss in the economics pages of newspaper today about a new report on quantitative easing from the House of
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The Institute for Fiscal Studies reported yesterday that: Almost all [Universal Credit] claimants are benefiting from the temporary £20 per week uplift in UC, due
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The Bank of England has published its quarterly review of credit in the UK. This of course matters: credit is largely about bank loans. This
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My column in The National today: 'Scotland simply cannot be independent without its own currency, its own central bank, its own inflation targets and its
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My wife sent me this tweet, suggesting it summarised what my blogging might be about: “If liberty means anything at all, it means the right
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The following post was shared by Dr Tim Rideout on the Facebook page of the Scottish Currency Group, of which I am a member, yesterday.
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