{"id":95350,"date":"2026-08-31T07:33:49","date_gmt":"2026-08-31T06:33:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=95350"},"modified":"2026-08-31T07:33:49","modified_gmt":"2026-08-31T06:33:49","slug":"just-saying-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2026\/08\/31\/just-saying-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Just saying&#8230;."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I keep on saying that this autumn is going to be mightily difficult.<\/p>\n<p>Fuel shortages will hit hard.<\/p>\n<p>Food prices will rise. Fertiliser shortages and drought guarantee that.<\/p>\n<p>El Ni\u00f1o will make things uncomfortable in ways that are still unpredictable.<\/p>\n<p>The AI bubble has to burst. This time is not different. It never is.<\/p>\n<p>And as the FT <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ft.com\/content\/f270814f-e836-44e8-80c2-ec1034f80519?shareType=nongift&amp;syn-25a6b1a6=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">noted overnight:<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The US military has struck two Iranian rocket launchers on an island in the Strait of Hormuz, the first American attack on Tehran\u2019s forces in more than a month.<\/p>\n<p>Iran swiftly retaliated by firing missiles at Jordan.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The war continues.<\/p>\n<p>And we have a new prime minister who seems to have only one gear, and it's reverse. That's all we have seen so far: a backtracking from any promises once made.<\/p>\n<p>None of this feels like a foundation for optimism to me.<\/p>\n<p>I wish it were otherwise.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I keep on saying that this autumn is going to be mightily difficult. Fuel shortages will hit hard. Food prices will rise. Fertiliser shortages and<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2026\/08\/31\/just-saying-3\/\"><em> Read the full article&#8230;<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[204,35,118,224,106,223],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-95350","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economic-justice","category-economics","category-labour","category-neoliberalism","category-politics","category-politics-of-care"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95350","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=95350"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95350\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":95351,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95350\/revisions\/95351"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}