mainly macro

  Much public discussion about immigration, including much of the print and broadcast media, negates rather than promotes understanding. The...

  The October Budget will tell us a great deal about how Rachel Reeves will act as Chancellor during this Labour government. As a result, be...

  There is no doubt that the actions of the most senior members of the Conservative party have encouraged the riots by right wing racist thu...

  The new Labour government aims to counter the “snake oil charm of populism”. Right wing populism suggests that minorities or outsiders re...

  Rachel Reeves yesterday wanted to establish in the public mind the extent of the fiscal mess that the last government had left behind. She...

The new bill to ensure that a UK government obtains the OBR’s analysis for any fiscal event is largely symbolic, because the reaction to t...

  In my last post I berated those in the media who hyped the threat of right wing populism represented by the votes won by Farage’s Reform ...