
There was a neat piece in the latest issue of Private Eye, out last week. There frequently is, of course. This one opened up thus: “A bombshell ...
Read MoreThere was a neat piece in the latest issue of Private Eye, out last week. There frequently is, of course. This one opened up thus: “A bombshell ...
Read MoreYou are probably aware that the government announced its budget last week. There was, understandably, quite a fuss about it. It was the first by a Lab...
Read MoreTaylor Swift is back in London this week, with a string of five shows in six nights starting at Wembley on Thursday evening. She was there for three g...
Read MoreYesterday the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Jeremy Hunt, unveiled his spring budget for 2024. It is likely to be the last major financial event until t...
Read MoreI was reminded by a piece in The Guardian the other week that September has historically been a sometimes savage month for high finance. For example, ...
Read MoreA few years ago there was a joke circulating on social media that imagined a world 200 years from now in which the British prime minister went to Brus...
Read MoreThe biggest fiscal curse facing the nation, we have repeatedly been told by the government and the Bank of England, is inflation. The country has been...
Read MoreThe front page of The Times on Tuesday September 6 carried a photo of Liz Truss and noted of the newly elected leader of the Conservative Party that t...
Read MoreYou may have noticed that there is (yet again!) an election campaign underway in order to resolve who should be the leader of the Conservative Party, ...
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