by Brian Monteith – 3 minute read DID YOU KNOW, today is World Rainforest Day? If not I doubt you are alone. Such is the plethora of special days, you cannot be expected to know them all. So don’t feel guilty about not knowing about World Rainforest Day. After all, I’m sure you're already doing [...]
By Ewen Stewart – 4 minute read ONE OF my friends is a joker. He sent me this from Starmer’s X account a few days ago proclaiming the Good News of Labour. ‘The Tories left us with a £22bn black hole. My government has fixed the foundations of our economy. We now have the fastest [...]
By Ewen Stewart – 4 minute read STARMER’S BREXIT DEAL was entirely predictable, maintaining the notional illusion of Brexit where the reality is the UK is increasingly close to being a de facto member of the EU. Sure we have legal independence, but barely a policy or regulation, eight years after the Referendum to leave the EU, [...]
By Bob Lyddon – 3 minute read LABOUR’S ‘borrowing for investment’ will part-finance the Net Zero transition in a repeat of New Labour’s Private Finance Initiative and the EU’s InvestEU, and cost the UK nearly £7 trillion. The Labour Government’s Climate Change Committee’s Carbon Budgets are a dangerous fiction in that they exclude these financing costs. [...]
By Bob Lyddon – 4 minute read LABOUR’S new ‘iron’ fiscal rules will open the floodgates to ‘borrowing for investment’, under the Government’s new measure of the national debt, called ‘Public sector net liabilities’. That is the message of my paper ‘ ‘Borrowing for investment’ – what is meant by this statement in theoretical terms’ published [...]
