I agree with others that the mood music coming out of Labour is more savvy of late, and there appears to have been a kind of dawning realisation that the sorts of policies and approach being trailed … (View Post)

I’m not convinced that Trump is killing populism stone dead or that voters are necessarily moving away from it. They may have growing reservations about the more extreme iterations, but I think they … (View Post)

Reeves remains the weak link of the government. We will see this again soon in the inevitable fallout from the March statement. She is not a strong messenger for the government. Not deft enough or ca… (View Post)

I am starting to think the sensible place to invest now is looking like anywhere but the US. All this uncertainty creates a very unstable marketplace. In the meantime, while other global economies ar… (View Post)

It’s very difficult to stop them going ahead, for various reasons, given how embedded and dispersed the election apparatus is in each state. And the fact the constitution mandates it on a very fixed … (View Post)