I'm curious as to how the balance of household debt has changed. I get the impression that there are many people with high levels of household debt and many with zero. Certainly student debt is … (View Post)

Some things tend to go in long term trends, others in shorter term cycles. Public sector workers did have a hard time during the coalition government but before that they were protected, sometimes be… (View Post)

So how do you differentiate between the effects of Covid, Ukraine, Brexit or a myriad of other factors ? And how, if you can do so, has Brexit been a 'total turd' ? Now one thing we can do … (View Post)

You seem to be under the self-deception that Brexit is the only thing that has happened in the past five years. Or that some longer term processes - for example the effect of the internet on town cen… (View Post)

Its a strange one. Perhaps Reeves feared that Labour MPs wouldn't have accepted increasing fiscal headroom as a good enough reason for spending restraint and tax increases. (View Post)