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· Nov 17
Excellent take. A damp squib, stealth taxes and a missed opportunity
My Sunday Times piece: The budget did nothing to boost growth and without a stronger revival, the public finances will remain vulnerable, and the threat of even higher taxes will persist:
Now we really need the growth fairy to wave her magic wand
www.thetimes.com/article/a135...
Now we really need the growth fairy to wave her magic wand
www.thetimes.com/article/a135...
Now we really need the growth fairy to wave her magic wand
Rachel Reeves’s budget extended the biggest stealth tax increase in history and left public spending unchecked. So where will growth come from?
www.thetimes.com
November 30, 2025 at 7:46 AM
Excellent take. A damp squib, stealth taxes and a missed opportunity
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On this day in 1935, Keynes' General Theory was published. A book that revolutionised Economics as we know it amd it still remains hugely influential today. Find out more about JMK & his ideas by listening to our podcast all about him. #EconSky open.spotify.com/episode/62oO...
Season 1 Episode 2 - John Maynard Keynes
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November 30, 2025 at 7:09 AM
On this day in 1935, Keynes' General Theory was published. A book that revolutionised Economics as we know it amd it still remains hugely influential today. Find out more about JMK & his ideas by listening to our podcast all about him. #EconSky open.spotify.com/episode/62oO...
For what it's worth, the very best books of 2025, in no particular order. Thank you @johnharris1969.bsky.social @stuartgillespie.bsky.social @duncanweldon.bsky.social @johncassidysays.bsky.social @patrickmcgee.bsky.social @jonawils.bsky.social
November 29, 2025 at 6:52 PM
For what it's worth, the very best books of 2025, in no particular order. Thank you @johnharris1969.bsky.social @stuartgillespie.bsky.social @duncanweldon.bsky.social @johncassidysays.bsky.social @patrickmcgee.bsky.social @jonawils.bsky.social
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Great to wake up and find that Maybe I'm Amazed is one of the Times' books of the year. Thanks to @cecibrowning.bsky.social for such a lovely summary
November 29, 2025 at 10:18 AM
Great to wake up and find that Maybe I'm Amazed is one of the Times' books of the year. Thanks to @cecibrowning.bsky.social for such a lovely summary
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Huge respect to the papers for finding both an 88 year old worried about the tax bill on her 6 bedroom Kensington house and a 20 year old fretting about only being able to save £12k a year tax free.
Top work all around. These are not easy case studies to find.
Top work all around. These are not easy case studies to find.
November 29, 2025 at 9:24 AM
Huge respect to the papers for finding both an 88 year old worried about the tax bill on her 6 bedroom Kensington house and a 20 year old fretting about only being able to save £12k a year tax free.
Top work all around. These are not easy case studies to find.
Top work all around. These are not easy case studies to find.
Excellent leader, lacking strategy and tough decisions on benefits, housing,
pensions and tax’s
What a wasted opportunity
pensions and tax’s
What a wasted opportunity
November 29, 2025 at 9:23 AM
Excellent leader, lacking strategy and tough decisions on benefits, housing,
pensions and tax’s
What a wasted opportunity
pensions and tax’s
What a wasted opportunity
www.romfordrecorder.co.uk/news/2565032...
What an absolute tool Andrew Rosindell,.Leave the Eu, leave London, give it 5 years and he will want to leave Essex and declare Havering an independent state, and build a moat around it.
What an absolute tool Andrew Rosindell,.Leave the Eu, leave London, give it 5 years and he will want to leave Essex and declare Havering an independent state, and build a moat around it.
Referendum proposed for Havering to leave London and rejoin Essex
Havering residents could get the chance to hold a referendum on re-joining Essex if an amendment by Romford MP Andrew Rosindell to a new bill is…
www.romfordrecorder.co.uk
November 27, 2025 at 8:24 PM
www.romfordrecorder.co.uk/news/2565032...
What an absolute tool Andrew Rosindell,.Leave the Eu, leave London, give it 5 years and he will want to leave Essex and declare Havering an independent state, and build a moat around it.
What an absolute tool Andrew Rosindell,.Leave the Eu, leave London, give it 5 years and he will want to leave Essex and declare Havering an independent state, and build a moat around it.
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In the build up to the Budget this week, why not share our Fiscal Policy Special so more people can join in the discussion about what can be done for the UK economy? Economics should be for everyone and we're to help! There is a fun quiz as well. #EconSky open.spotify.com/episode/71ev...
Fiscal Policy Special
open.spotify.com
November 24, 2025 at 9:47 PM
In the build up to the Budget this week, why not share our Fiscal Policy Special so more people can join in the discussion about what can be done for the UK economy? Economics should be for everyone and we're to help! There is a fun quiz as well. #EconSky open.spotify.com/episode/71ev...
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Nathan Gill, Reform UK’s former leader in Wales has been jailed for ten-and-a-half years for taking bribes to make pro-Russia statements. What does Nigel Farage think about this?
November 21, 2025 at 4:11 PM
Nathan Gill, Reform UK’s former leader in Wales has been jailed for ten-and-a-half years for taking bribes to make pro-Russia statements. What does Nigel Farage think about this?
Excellent article. Governments need to get a grip and realise leaving everything to the market is not working. Jobs are not there for everyone, globalisation has failed many. Michael Gove’s ‘crimes’ against inclusive education need to be swept away. We need bold action to help the young
Latest from me: on the million young people not in education, employment in training, & generational debts still not settled www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
With a million young people locked out of work, the UK’s hidden jobs crisis is only growing | John Harris
Held back by Covid and then phased out by AI, Britain’s so-called Neets are desperately seeking a secure future. Who will offer them hope? asks Guardian columnist John Harris
www.theguardian.com
November 23, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Excellent article. Governments need to get a grip and realise leaving everything to the market is not working. Jobs are not there for everyone, globalisation has failed many. Michael Gove’s ‘crimes’ against inclusive education need to be swept away. We need bold action to help the young
One of the books of the year, and great to meet on of your journalistic heroes. The book is a very important book of our time, relating to all things autism and music. The Kraftwerk chapter is very emotional, @johnharris1969.bsky.social
November 22, 2025 at 8:32 PM
One of the books of the year, and great to meet on of your journalistic heroes. The book is a very important book of our time, relating to all things autism and music. The Kraftwerk chapter is very emotional, @johnharris1969.bsky.social
Will be there, will be coming on my newly acquired £57k Tour De France Kraftwerk bike!
Tomorrow is the 20th Maybe I'm Amazed book event, and the last of 2025. It's at the WriteIdea festival in Whitechapel, East London, at 5.30pm. And it's free. Music, autism, Kraftwerk, The Clash, all that. Register here www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/john-harri...
November 22, 2025 at 1:45 PM
Will be there, will be coming on my newly acquired £57k Tour De France Kraftwerk bike!
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This is outstanding work by @ledbydonkeys.org. The Real BBC Bias Story, exposing the lies and disinformation of the political right.
People must see this, as the mainstream media are failing to report the real story here. Please share widely.
www.youtube.com/shorts/h5kF1...
People must see this, as the mainstream media are failing to report the real story here. Please share widely.
www.youtube.com/shorts/h5kF1...
The real BBC bias story, narrated by Anna Ford
YouTube video by Led By Donkeys
www.youtube.com
November 19, 2025 at 10:11 AM
This is outstanding work by @ledbydonkeys.org. The Real BBC Bias Story, exposing the lies and disinformation of the political right.
People must see this, as the mainstream media are failing to report the real story here. Please share widely.
www.youtube.com/shorts/h5kF1...
People must see this, as the mainstream media are failing to report the real story here. Please share widely.
www.youtube.com/shorts/h5kF1...
A great book 📕
Not long now till Christmas.
Imagine the joy on their faces if they open a biography of the Charltons on Christmas morning…
www.amazon.co.uk/Two-Brothers...
Imagine the joy on their faces if they open a biography of the Charltons on Christmas morning…
www.amazon.co.uk/Two-Brothers...
November 18, 2025 at 7:51 AM
A great book 📕
Currently doing on Audible, with YouTube/Fifa films of the tournaments . Superb book, as expexted
Qualifying reminding us why the World Cup is the greatest thing ever. If only there were…
www.amazon.co.uk/Secret-Histo...
www.amazon.co.uk/Secret-Histo...
November 17, 2025 at 5:54 PM
Currently doing on Audible, with YouTube/Fifa films of the tournaments . Superb book, as expexted
Brilliant news, best band in the world @ezracollective.bsky.social
November 13, 2025 at 10:43 AM
Brilliant news, best band in the world @ezracollective.bsky.social
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Our new report on hotel accommodation drops today.
These hotels are not 5*. Here's the proof.
Relying on testimony from clients, photos & medical evidence, you can now see the awful reality of hotel life.
More updates throughout the day so watch this space.
www.ramfel.org.uk/asylum-hotel...
Our new report on hotel accommodation drops today.
These hotels are not 5*. Here's the proof.
Relying on testimony from clients, photos & medical evidence, you can now see the awful reality of hotel life.
More updates throughout the day so watch this space.
www.ramfel.org.uk/asylum-hotel...
Asylum Hotels Report
Our new report, Profiting from People: Inside the UK’s Asylum Hotels , exposes the true horrors that refugees face whilst housed for years on end in asylum hotels. We’ve long known this, and now...
www.ramfel.org.uk
November 11, 2025 at 9:52 AM
🚨🚨🚨
Our new report on hotel accommodation drops today.
These hotels are not 5*. Here's the proof.
Relying on testimony from clients, photos & medical evidence, you can now see the awful reality of hotel life.
More updates throughout the day so watch this space.
www.ramfel.org.uk/asylum-hotel...
Our new report on hotel accommodation drops today.
These hotels are not 5*. Here's the proof.
Relying on testimony from clients, photos & medical evidence, you can now see the awful reality of hotel life.
More updates throughout the day so watch this space.
www.ramfel.org.uk/asylum-hotel...
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One of our suggestions in our Environment Special. #EconSky podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/e...
Switching from an omnivorous to a vegan diet can reduce daily greenhouse gas emissions by 46%, while also lowering land and water use and maintaining nutritional balance.
Vegan diet can halve your carbon footprint, study finds
Only around 1.1% of the world's population is vegan, but this percentage is growing. For example, in Germany the number of vegans approximately doubled between 2016 and 2020 to 2% of the population, while a 2.4-fold increase between 2023 and 2025 to 4.7% of the population has been reported in the UK.
phys.org
November 11, 2025 at 7:32 AM
One of our suggestions in our Environment Special. #EconSky podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/e...
www.theguardian.com/music/2025/n...
Amazing how undervalued UK jazz has always been to this country. How long have we been waiting for a UK jazz centre. Maybe time for Lisa Nandy to swap one of the many opera houses we have.
Amazing how undervalued UK jazz has always been to this country. How long have we been waiting for a UK jazz centre. Maybe time for Lisa Nandy to swap one of the many opera houses we have.
‘Young audiences are less scared of it’: why London jazz clubs are expanding and thriving against the odds
As the Jazz Cafe and Ronnie Scott’s expand, and Blue Note eyes its arrival, proprietors say there’s an energy in the scene – but financial pressures remain
www.theguardian.com
November 10, 2025 at 7:08 PM
www.theguardian.com/music/2025/n...
Amazing how undervalued UK jazz has always been to this country. How long have we been waiting for a UK jazz centre. Maybe time for Lisa Nandy to swap one of the many opera houses we have.
Amazing how undervalued UK jazz has always been to this country. How long have we been waiting for a UK jazz centre. Maybe time for Lisa Nandy to swap one of the many opera houses we have.
Excited to get an article into the current issue of Economics today from. Takes the mind of Liverpool losing and the weather!
November 10, 2025 at 1:39 PM
Excited to get an article into the current issue of Economics today from. Takes the mind of Liverpool losing and the weather!
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Nice, new review of Ricardo's Dream
"If you are interested in economics, history, politics and world affairs you should read this book"
michaelcoblenz.medium.com/simple-econo...
"If you are interested in economics, history, politics and world affairs you should read this book"
michaelcoblenz.medium.com/simple-econo...
Simple Economics in a Complex World
Book Notes — Ricardo’s Dream: How Economists Forgot the Real World and Led Us Astray, by Nat Dyer. Bristol University Press, 2024…
michaelcoblenz.medium.com
November 10, 2025 at 11:15 AM
Nice, new review of Ricardo's Dream
"If you are interested in economics, history, politics and world affairs you should read this book"
michaelcoblenz.medium.com/simple-econo...
"If you are interested in economics, history, politics and world affairs you should read this book"
michaelcoblenz.medium.com/simple-econo...
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Latest from me: on seven-party politics, why it's not going to go away & how Labour and the Tories are completely thrown by it www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Welcome to 21st-century politics: a bitter revolt against power that will consume Labour and the Tories | John Harris
A mood of turbulence and insurgency against the two main parties has been building for years, says Guardian columnist John Harris
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November 9, 2025 at 2:46 PM
Latest from me: on seven-party politics, why it's not going to go away & how Labour and the Tories are completely thrown by it www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Fantastic book. A proper deep dive into who is really ripping us off
@graceblakeley.substack.com Covers some of this (possibly more) in the excellent Vulture Capitalism.
November 9, 2025 at 8:04 AM
Fantastic book. A proper deep dive into who is really ripping us off
Great journalism, shame the new football regulator can’t enforce a ‘fit and proper’ owners test on Man City. But guess they can step in if they want to change the badge!
November 8, 2025 at 11:30 AM
Great journalism, shame the new football regulator can’t enforce a ‘fit and proper’ owners test on Man City. But guess they can step in if they want to change the badge!