Funding the Future

The MAGA put Trump back in the White House, but like Biden before him, nothing he’s doing is going to make ordinary Americans feel better off, and we know what they did to the Democrats as a result.

The Bank of England could make our lives a lot better by changing some of its policies, but it shows no sign of doing so. Why then do we tolerate its supposed independence when that is used to undermine our well-being?

Rachel Reeves suffers with the nickname ‘Rachel form Accounts’. Only it looks like her own accounting has not been that good, and nor is her CV all she claims it to be. But is the real story that her colleagues want her out?

Trump says we need to spend five per cent of our GDP on defence. That would increase the spend from £60 billi0on to £140 billion. What are the consequences of that?

Starmer is aping Nigel Farage’s anti-migrant rhetoric when no-one would worry about migration if Labour delivered what people want from the government.

When markets realise Trump is serious about tariffs, and that the US is now an isolationist state, seeking to cut itself off from the rest of the world, they're going to react, and we’ll get a crash.

I am bored by politicians who pretend that there are ‘isms’ that create political divides in the UK. There aren’t. All our political parties are virtually interchangeable. In that case let’s talk about meeting needs, not political paint scoring.

Everyone but the government seems to agree that young people need a proper education in finance before leaving school, and there is a pot of money available to pay for it.

Trump wants to sanction those working for the International Criminal Court who are seeking to uphold international law. He’s reached the point where he’s saying he has the right to declare what is right to be wrong.

Curing diseases is not a very profitable activity for drug companies. Managing sick people is. So, do drug companies really want to cure diseases, or do they want us to all be sick for as long as possible?