Tuesday, 7 July 2026

The UK’s falling debt to GDP fiscal rule is a rule to suppress public investment

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  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...
Tuesday, 30 June 2026

Sowing the Seeds of UK Revival

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  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...
Tuesday, 23 June 2026

Why governments should not be in hock to the bond market

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  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...
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Tuesday, 16 June 2026

The Consequences of Tolerating the Far Right

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  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...
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Tuesday, 9 June 2026

Trends in UK Inequality and Poverty

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  Popular discussion of inequality or poverty in the UK is often confused because there are many different measures of both. [1] Some facts ...
Tuesday, 2 June 2026

Immigration numbers and the media

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  According to YouGov , ‘Immigration and Asylum’ was the second most important issue facing the country in May, just behind the economy. Acc...
Tuesday, 26 May 2026

New ideas from Labour on economic policy

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  It may be a coincidence, but the possibility of fresh leadership seems to have inspired a couple of papers published by Labour groups on h...