Economy

In recent years, government budgets, spring statements and spending reviews have tended to unravel within hours.

“Gougeflation” would be a more accurate term...

There are many reasons for the slow death of pub culture in the UK, but government is among the biggest.

We are now reaping the consequences of decisions made half a century ago

Our predicament is not dissimilar to that of a cancer patient... There is no good alternative.

The common trend in British infrastructure over the last half century has been to trade resilience for profit.

The big risk to the UK economy from April is that we witness a Laffer Effect on steroids…

Actually, not only can a sovereign state go bust, but it has already happened… and to a modern state not so far from home.

While the bursting of the AI bubble will be Silicon Valley’s nemesis, in the UK it is in more mundane sectors that we are witnessing a crisis far more profound

Fortunately, the promises of AI are about as realistic as programable central bank digital currencies… and for much the same reason