mainly macro

As this will be the last blog until 2025, I thought I’d make it a bit more substantive than usual. Normal service will be resumed in 2025. ...

  I had a conversation on social media recently that went a bit like this (and I’m paraphrasing): ‘I want massive reductions in immigrat...

  Rachel Reeves is absolutely right to make investment her watchword as Chancellor. So many of our current problems come from lack of invest...

  One of the themes in post-US election analysis, including my own , has been the shock to real income caused by recent commodity prices inc...

  In two recent blog posts I returned to the issue of lack of media regulation, and the way lack of regulation is helping right wing popul...

  By now you will have probably read thousands of words about Trump’s sweeping election victory, so what can I hope to add? The biggest puz...