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Every July the OBR publishes fiscal projections looking fifty years ahead. Each year the headline is the same. The public finances are on an unsustainable path...

In a recent post, where I discussed the Conservative party’s newfound opposition to net zero, I noted that one attraction that switch had is that it would likely attract generous donations from the fossil fuel industry. One legitimate question is whether I could have stopped my post right there. Was it really a surprise that ...

Want more public services, help with the cost of living, a simplified tax system and a reduction in the public sector deficit? It sounds like a Reform manifesto, but what I’m referring to is a detailed, radical and costed

All the evidence points to the alarming extent of man made climate change. This isn’t just evidence available to scientists, but the everyday experience of everyone witnessing or experiencing both hotter temperatures and a more extreme climate. Yet Reform in the UK and the Republicans in the US not only deny this reality but ...

Let me start by apologising to any regular readers of this blog. None of the arguments in this post are particularly new. But with a new PM and possibly a new Chancellor, and with Andy Burnham committed to high public investment including many more council houses, it seems appropriate to make this argument once again in as cl...