mainly macro

  In a recent post, where I discussed the Conservative party’s newfound opposition to net zero, I noted that one attraction that switch had ...

  Want more public services, help with the cost of living, a simplified tax system and a reduction in the public sector deficit? It sounds l...

  All the evidence points to the alarming extent of man made climate change. This isn’t just evidence available to scientists, but the every...

  Let me start by apologising to any regular readers of this blog. None of the arguments in this post are particularly new. But with a new P...

  As you have almost certainly read too many laments about having seven Prime Ministers in (just over) ten years, and too many ‘10 years aft...

  My starting point is not what Andy Burnham said but points recently made by Chris Dillow. Here he argues that we shouldn’t worry about t...

  As I have argued in previous posts , the rise in the far right is not a result of changes in people’s attitudes. In many ways over the las...