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 ...
Tuesday, 21 October 2025

What the call for fiscal headroom reveals

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  Everyone, including the IFS, is agreed that the Chancellor should in the budget create more fiscal headroom than she did previously. Rath...
Tuesday, 14 October 2025

Populism and Economic Prosperity

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  Mainstream political parties normally claim that populist parties, if they ever got to power, would damage the economy. We have clear evid...
Tuesday, 7 October 2025

The uphill struggle to stop Reform

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  Making political predictions is foolish, but I can only see two political parties that can stop a Reform government in the UK: Labour and ...
Tuesday, 30 September 2025

Misunderstandings on the left (and elsewhere) about the OBR, independence and the bond market

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  I often see pieces from those on the left criticising the OBR. Here is Louise Haigh , for example, talking about the “rigid orthodoxy of t...
Wednesday, 24 September 2025

Farage and the BBC

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  On Monday 22nd September I watched a party political broadcast on behalf of Nigel Farage’s Reform Party. It was on the BBC, and it was en...