Tuesday, 2 December 2025

The Budget suggests the Chancellor is thinking too much about short term management and too little about long term legacy

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  My posts come out on a Tuesday and Budgets are on a Wednesday. Not great timing, which is why in the past I’ve often done special posts on...
Tuesday, 25 November 2025

Expertise, Government, the Media and Covid

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  It is now generally (although not universally) accepted that those of us who campaigned vigorously against the government’s auster...
Tuesday, 18 November 2025

Blue Labour’s Electoral Fallacies

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  The government’s latest proposed revamp of asylum laws reminds us that Labour have not abandoned their approach of using right wing popul...
Tuesday, 11 November 2025

Labour’s Brexit stance is as untenable as their tax pledge

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  In my last post about the prospect of Labour breaking its tax pledge, I did something I don’t often do, which is indulge in some ‘I told y...
Tuesday, 4 November 2025

UK Productivity and the Budget

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  Most people reading this will know that one of the Chancellor’s big problems that she will have to tackle in the November Budget is a down...
Tuesday, 28 October 2025

How the reaction to a football ban showed how our politicians and media have become trapped in right wing Islamophobic narratives and detached from the majority of voters

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  In the weeks before the Maccabi Tel Aviv supporters ban was announced, Conservative party leader-in-waiting Robert Jenrick declared that ...