Survival of the Richest: Can We Afford Not to Act?
Oxfam has released a hard-hitting report, Survival of the Richest, which sheds light on global – and UK – trends in wealth distribution. As the richest continue to get […]
2023: A Year of Opportunity
Happy New Year The year 2023 presents us with both continued threats and – increasingly important – new opportunities. The threats, both in the UK and internationally, include a continuation […]
Reflections on 2022
As we rapidly approach Christmas, instead of the normal letter, I thought I would share some personal reflections on the past year. For most people, and for the UK economy, […]
How the Light Gets In
After 12 years of Conservative government, the UK faces serious and rapidly growing problems on multiple fronts: 1) economically, 2) in terms of the financial, physical and mental health […]
The Debate We Need to Have
Our social contract – the ‘deal’ that makes us a civilised country – is under grave threat both practically and philosophically. And we are not talking about it. Practically, the […]
A Non-Solution to the Wrong Problems
Introduction Before looking in detail at this Budget, it is worth reminding ourselves that the economy is the system we as a country have chosen to put in place to […]
A Renewed Assault on Our Human Rights
One good thing Truss did in her brief tenure as Prime Minister was to shelve plans to ‘reform’ the UK’s system of human rights. Under Sunak and Raab, the government […]
Beyond Extreme
Since 2012, Cameron, May, Johnson, Truss have all been at the helm of the Conservative Party. By the standards of the UK’s other major parties, of course, they are all […]
What the IMF Really Said
Twice a year, the IMF releases its World Economic Outlook. The most recent was published on 11 October 2022. Some on the extreme right have been claiming that it is […]
The “Creative” Destruction of the UK
Last week, we wrote about Truss and Kwarteng’s Budget that “It is very clear that this Budget does not produce the change in direction the country needs; it is a […]