Selling England by the pound
Funding the Future
Selling England by the pound
Two familiar commentators on this blog, Mike Parr and the person known as Colonel Smithers, spent some of the weekend discussing a Substack by some...
 Why is England (and I do mean England, in particular) in such decline? That's because the City put up a 'For Sale' sign over it in the 1980s, and the logic still is that everything must go.
Fiscal rules are as flexible as rubber bands
Funding the Future
Fiscal rules are as flexible as rubber bands
In this video, I explain why Rachel Reeves’ beloved fiscal rules are nothing but political theatre. They’re arbitrary, endlessly changeable, an...
 In this video, I explain why Rachel Reeves’ beloved fiscal rules are nothing but political theatre. They’re arbitrary, endlessly changeable, and stop us investing in what matters. It’s time we governed for people, not ratios.