Randeep Ramesh
@stillwatersrandeep.bsky.social
Chief leader writer, The Guardian. @tianran at the other place
Reeves booed by the bankers she has wooed
November 15, 2025 at 8:33 PM
Reeves booed by the bankers she has wooed
is it just me or are Keir and Rachel reprising DC's greatest hits: refugee-bashing, austerity economics and stability with me - or chaos with anyone else?
November 14, 2025 at 4:23 PM
is it just me or are Keir and Rachel reprising DC's greatest hits: refugee-bashing, austerity economics and stability with me - or chaos with anyone else?
The Guardian view on the BBC under siege: Britain must defend its own truth www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
November 10, 2025 at 9:05 PM
The Guardian view on the BBC under siege: Britain must defend its own truth www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
lest we forget that the war for talent across the pond is such that quant firms offer interns, yes interns, $35,000 a month...
November 3, 2025 at 4:26 PM
lest we forget that the war for talent across the pond is such that quant firms offer interns, yes interns, $35,000 a month...
Meanwhile for those hoping just to get on in the City - they are starting on not much more than the minimum wage! www.ft.com/content/b436...
November 3, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Meanwhile for those hoping just to get on in the City - they are starting on not much more than the minimum wage! www.ft.com/content/b436...
Graduates who get a job in quantitative finance can expect to start on £250K to `£800k a year! www.ft.com/content/8a65...
November 3, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Graduates who get a job in quantitative finance can expect to start on £250K to `£800k a year! www.ft.com/content/8a65...
Failing to see that government spending creates the private sector’s income... Allergic to the idea that state spending can be both sustainable and expansionary... Made this mistake once before (see eg criticalfinance.org/tag/economics/ and mainlymacro.blogspot.com/2013/10/why-....
October 30, 2025 at 8:46 AM
Failing to see that government spending creates the private sector’s income... Allergic to the idea that state spending can be both sustainable and expansionary... Made this mistake once before (see eg criticalfinance.org/tag/economics/ and mainlymacro.blogspot.com/2013/10/why-....
In the For the Record, David Cameron explained how he freed the Royals from the annual Commons vote that once kept their spending accountable!
October 20, 2025 at 4:01 PM
In the For the Record, David Cameron explained how he freed the Royals from the annual Commons vote that once kept their spending accountable!
October 15, 2025 at 7:23 AM
Most Britons don’t fall into the neat camps of “NIMBY” or “YIMBY”. They want both: to build but also to protect the countryside.
October 9, 2025 at 5:46 PM
Most Britons don’t fall into the neat camps of “NIMBY” or “YIMBY”. They want both: to build but also to protect the countryside.
@adamtooze.bsky.social correctly says slowing QT by Bank of England was a concession but an “immediate and complete end would send the right signal”. Calls for new concordat between Bank and Government to lift the “fear of bond market crisis”. 1/2
October 7, 2025 at 8:12 AM
@adamtooze.bsky.social correctly says slowing QT by Bank of England was a concession but an “immediate and complete end would send the right signal”. Calls for new concordat between Bank and Government to lift the “fear of bond market crisis”. 1/2
@pennymordaunt.bsky.social comes out as an Oakeshottian Conservative. Making the case for the familiar and rooting Toryism in natural human disposition. Saying it why the Tories have failed in recent years. @moreincommonuk.bsky.social fringe
October 6, 2025 at 2:40 PM
@pennymordaunt.bsky.social comes out as an Oakeshottian Conservative. Making the case for the familiar and rooting Toryism in natural human disposition. Saying it why the Tories have failed in recent years. @moreincommonuk.bsky.social fringe
Israel attacking places and people protected under international law. UK government is so appalled that it decides...
August 25, 2025 at 10:23 PM
Israel attacking places and people protected under international law. UK government is so appalled that it decides...
lying without consequence?
August 25, 2025 at 10:21 PM
lying without consequence?
Finally some sense in this lurid piece which trots out tired cod national psychoanalysis
August 10, 2025 at 9:19 AM
Finally some sense in this lurid piece which trots out tired cod national psychoanalysis
Err we left the European Union in Jan 2020. Could have something to do with it?
August 10, 2025 at 9:16 AM
Err we left the European Union in Jan 2020. Could have something to do with it?
The Today programme tacks right on many issues and has been out of step with liberal Britain for yonks. It attracts older listeners and its recent additions (AR and EB) are terrible.
August 10, 2025 at 9:09 AM
The Today programme tacks right on many issues and has been out of step with liberal Britain for yonks. It attracts older listeners and its recent additions (AR and EB) are terrible.
Living standards expected to rise for midde and high-income families in 2025-26, but fall for poorest 10%, NIESR says
August 6, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Living standards expected to rise for midde and high-income families in 2025-26, but fall for poorest 10%, NIESR says
"there is an essential difference between the position of a family budget and the national budget, and that is that on the whole a family cannot increase its income by increasing its spending, whereas a nation, a government, by increasing its spending [can] increase the total of the national income"
August 6, 2025 at 11:27 AM
"there is an essential difference between the position of a family budget and the national budget, and that is that on the whole a family cannot increase its income by increasing its spending, whereas a nation, a government, by increasing its spending [can] increase the total of the national income"
www.gov.uk/government/n... Israeli ministers must be quaking in their boots because these countries are “prepared” to take action!
July 22, 2025 at 10:39 AM
www.gov.uk/government/n... Israeli ministers must be quaking in their boots because these countries are “prepared” to take action!
Paul Marshall - hedge fundie & owner of GB News,UnHerd and The Spectator - parrots Trump Treasury sec claim that stablecoins “reinforce dollar supremacy”.But that’s pure spin. Holding a stablecoin isn’t holding a dollar or a T-bill.It’s holding a promise -with no guarantee www.ft.com/content/6675...
July 21, 2025 at 11:19 PM
Paul Marshall - hedge fundie & owner of GB News,UnHerd and The Spectator - parrots Trump Treasury sec claim that stablecoins “reinforce dollar supremacy”.But that’s pure spin. Holding a stablecoin isn’t holding a dollar or a T-bill.It’s holding a promise -with no guarantee www.ft.com/content/6675...
Keir Starmer wants readers of the Observer to know he's incompetent and didn't realise his speech was spoofing 1960s racist MP Enoch Powell. But to readers of the Sun, it's that the racism is fine - it's just the words "I didn't like using". And that's ok with frothing dimwits
July 18, 2025 at 7:54 AM
Keir Starmer wants readers of the Observer to know he's incompetent and didn't realise his speech was spoofing 1960s racist MP Enoch Powell. But to readers of the Sun, it's that the racism is fine - it's just the words "I didn't like using". And that's ok with frothing dimwits
To replace licence fee revenue (£3.6bn), 75% of UK households would need to subscribe. Even Netflix tops out at 56%.
July 1, 2025 at 9:24 PM
To replace licence fee revenue (£3.6bn), 75% of UK households would need to subscribe. Even Netflix tops out at 56%.
Enders Analysis 2024 on the BBC "Shifting from a
licence fee model to a subscription model may appear to be the BBC moving with the times; instead, the
BBC would be challenged to ensure long-term stability and the breadth of its content offering."
licence fee model to a subscription model may appear to be the BBC moving with the times; instead, the
BBC would be challenged to ensure long-term stability and the breadth of its content offering."
July 1, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Enders Analysis 2024 on the BBC "Shifting from a
licence fee model to a subscription model may appear to be the BBC moving with the times; instead, the
BBC would be challenged to ensure long-term stability and the breadth of its content offering."
licence fee model to a subscription model may appear to be the BBC moving with the times; instead, the
BBC would be challenged to ensure long-term stability and the breadth of its content offering."