mainly macro

  Mainstream political parties normally claim that populist parties, if they ever got to power, would damage the economy. We have clear evid...

  Making political predictions is foolish, but I can only see two political parties that can stop a Reform government in the UK: Labour and ...

  I often see pieces from those on the left criticising the OBR. Here is Louise Haigh , for example, talking about the “rigid orthodoxy of t...

  On Monday 22nd September I watched a party political broadcast on behalf of Nigel Farage’s Reform Party. It was on the BBC, and it was en...

  Much as Starmer’s government has attempted to deal with Farage and domestic right wing populism by bending towards it (some might say fall...

  There are few subjects where the national debate is so contaminated by disinformation as immigration and asylum. Alan Beattie in the Finan...