New Labour’s neo-liberal economics won’t cut it

Back in the days of youth and irresponsibility (the early 70s for me) a group of us would meet up most Fridays and Saturdays for a drink (not many, we couldn’t afford them. An increasingly warm lager and lime for me) and a chat. One of this group was a lady called...

The perils of populism. Farage/Reform as a clear and present danger

Well, we all had a good laugh, didn’t we? Farage’s ‘Our contract with you’ – a hoot, a joke, figures plucked from the air, nothing adding up, £50 billion plus £50 billion makes £150 billion, enormous tax cuts, huge spending cuts, smaller government but bigger prisons,...