Keynesian Liberal

Every comment by Liberal Democrats, on the budget, the NHS or anything else for that matter, should be prefaced by the phrase: "the Tor...

It is good news that Nick Clegg is going to use his deputy-priministerial status to "do something" about the excesses of executive...

It has become conventional wisdom to praise Gordon Brown for keeping us out of the Euro, but my own view remains that we ought to have joine...

Liberal Democrat activists are certainly a hardy lot. In spite of the loss of about one third of our (their) council seats last May endless ...

George Osborne's repose to the Vickers proposal to create a "firewall" between the retail and "casino" activities of...

For centuries, until the Enlightenment I suppose, most societies lived in fear of their gods or god and felt the need to avert disasters by...

While I was on holiday last week figures were published to show that the British economy had grown by only 0.2% in the previous quarter. Th...

I have just spent a delightful week walking on the Gower in South Wales so have picked up only snippets of news. However, I gather that V...

One of the greatest problems of the UK economy is short termism: that our investors are far more concerned with making a quick profit in th...

In the financial sphere it has long been the case that investors are more interested in making a fast buck than in long term investment to g...

It used to be argued that death duties were a "voluntary tax" since those liable to them were rich enough to employ clever accoun...

I have been a passive supporter of the Campaign Against Arm Trade (CAAT) for many years, having been introduced to it by a member of one of ...

In an article in the Observer last month William Keegan wrote: "There is something barbaric about the way this coalition is setting ab...

During the campaign for the Labour Party leadership Ed Balls contributed an article to the Guardian which aptly summed up the Keynesian posi...

Vince Cable's statement of the obvious truth that "markets are often irrational or rigged" has produced injured bleats from t...

Another unpublished letter to the Guardian. I sincerely hope that both Phil's conclusions turn out to be wrong, but he poses two very...

There's an excellent article by Ed Balls in yesterday's Guardian which clearly states the Keynesian position. If you're not yet...

With the possible exception of the New Statesman the entire British media, including the BBC, seems to have accepted as fact that the Briti...

Reaction to Michael Gove's announcement that the coalition is to abandon over 700 school building projects first centred on the pupils a...

Dear Simon Hughes First congratulations on your election as deputy leader. I hope you see one of your functions as being to keep the social...