Funding the Future

For how much longer will Rachel be in accounts?

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?

Where does £80 billion extra for defence come from?

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 must stop pandering to Farage

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.

Is Trump going to crash the markets?

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 don’t believe in political ‘isms’

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.

How to pay for financial education

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 is saying wrong is right

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.

Do drug companies want to cure us?

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?

Can we live with chaos?

Trump is setting out to create chaos. That he’s doing so is not an accident. It’s deliberate. Can we react in time to save anything of value in the world that we’ve known?

Do we need bottom-up thinking?

Top-down thinking tells us what we can’t do because it assumes things aren’t possible, which is exactly what our politicians keep saying. Is it time to liberate ourselves with some bottom-up thinking?