As the Office for National Statistics have reported this morning: Monthly real gross domestic product (GDP) is estimated to have fallen by 0.3% in April
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The assumption that all economic growth is good is clearly misplaced. But how do we convince politicians and economists who are obsessed with growth that
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Reeves is delivering austerity for the UK, unless you’re wealthy, when it’s still bonanza time. This is the transcript: It has to be said that
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These are my contemporaneous  notes made as Reeves spoke on her Spending Review this lunchtime. I stress – they were just notes – nothing more,
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I have just added this post to my glossary, because I think defining the term ‘the age of aggression’ is important, and I have a
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As Reuters have noted: U.S. President Donald Trump warned people on Tuesday against protesting at the weekend military parade in Washington marking the U.S. Army’s
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As the FT notes this morning: Chancellor Rachel Reeves will on Wednesday put a £39bn “affordable housing” plan at the heart of her multiyear UK
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Pete Hesgeth, who quite bizarrely is US Defence Secretary, said yesterday that troops sent to Los Angeles were expected to stay for at least 60
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The Spending Review will be riddled with jargon today that is alien to almost anyone not familiar with the absurd language of government accounting, which
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