I think this very interesting, and that not a lot more need be said:

It being a bank holiday, I spent the morning at the Wetland and Wildlife Trust reserve at Welney, and was well rewarded for my efforts.

There were eight cranes, and a spoonbill, but all of them out of camera range.

And then there was a bittern, which is one of UK’s most elusive resident birds, usually skulking out of sight in reed beds. We saw it once from the m...

This is in a

I found this post on X particularly telling regarding the biases within the UK government.

As is noted, the government has put the entire Iranian state on the enhanced tier of its Foreign Influence Registration Scheme, while at the same time one third of th...

This discussion took place at the recent Scottish Economics Festival:

This is the transcript:

Will: And now you’re aware of a report that I wrote with Jim Osborne from the Scottish Currency Group, and we suggested that the idea that the Scottish Government has come up with — that they need to issue wholesale bonds — is not a very good i...