Tuesday, 29 April 2025

What Labour is getting wrong in fighting right wing populism

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  We can guess that, however well the Liberal Democrats or Greens do in this week’s council elections, the main headlines will be about the ...
Tuesday, 22 April 2025

Is two-party politics really dead in the UK?

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  Rob Ford, previewing the upcoming election on 1st May in the Guardian, emphasises how the Liberal Democrats, Greens and Reform are likely...
Tuesday, 15 April 2025

The new silent majority

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The term silent majority, in both the UK and US, was once used for voters who were socially conservative and also, it was assumed by the po...
Tuesday, 8 April 2025

Why populists can do so much harm

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  Trump’s ‘Liberation Day’ naturally reminded me of Johnson’s ‘Independence Day’. There are of course many differences between the two. Tari...
Tuesday, 1 April 2025

Last week’s spending cuts were not the fault of the OBR or a medium term golden fiscal rule

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  In my last post I said that Rachel Reeves’s statement last week, and more generally the way fiscal policy has been done since 2010, had n...
Thursday, 27 March 2025

Why can’t we do fiscal policy in a grown up way?

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  I suspect to most people what Rachel Reeves announced yesterday went like this. The OBR published a forecast, something it has to do twic...
Tuesday, 25 March 2025

Labour’s strategic error on tax

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  Two things have become clear to many people since Labour came to government. The first is that the party had done less preparation work fo...