Saturday, 24 September 2022

A budget that harms everyone except the very rich

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  Before getting distracted by the spin put on Friday’s budget, it is important to be clear what the motivation for it is. It’s not a budget...
Tuesday, 20 September 2022

Going for growth?

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  In my last post , I missed out one potential benefit from the switch in emphasis from the deficit to growth under Truss and Kwarteng. Duri...
Tuesday, 13 September 2022

How to judge fiscal policy in the time of Truss

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  As expected , Truss has announced a freeze in energy prices. That means that inflation will not be as high as some recent forecasts, the c...
Tuesday, 6 September 2022

The Cost of Living Crisis, its macroeconomic implications and Truss economics

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  Support for energy users When I wrote about higher energy prices back in March, I argued for what would become two months later the UK...
Tuesday, 30 August 2022

How populists use broadcasting impartiality to create bias and obscure knowledge

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  Some of the criticisms I have seen of the MacTaggart Lecture given in Edinburgh by Emily Maitlis miss the whole point of the lecture . As ...
Tuesday, 23 August 2022

After the Virus

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  Our probable next Prime Minister has said that if another pandemic hit the UK, she would not authorise any lockdowns similar to those em...
Tuesday, 16 August 2022

Why our new Prime Minister is ignoring multiple crises, and proposing policies that helped generate these crises.

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  Many people have commented on the complete disconnect between the issues being debated as part of the Conservative leadership campaign and...