British Symmetry Time?
By Chris Cook Having just watched the Scottish gloom descend over Edinburgh at what seems to me to…
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It’s the producers, stupid
By Chris Cook For some time now the conventional wisdom has been that commodity market ‘speculators’ are to…
Higher education – Tax, debt or simply investment?
By Chris Cook The hot – indeed, explosive – political topic of the moment is definitely higher education.…
Taxpayers’ Money – Myth and Reality
By Chris Cook Money for Nothing Quite a few economists – and almost the entire population – are…
NHS professionals – playing doctors and nurses
By Chris Cook The ‘Financial Times’ reported on Friday that NHS Professionals Ltd – which provides ‘banks’ of…
Funding the Big Society
By Chris Cook David Cameron’s ‘Big Society’ is the greatest opportunity for Labour and the unions in 100…
Austerity or prosperity
By Chris Cook In the aftermath of the G7/G20 meeting the dominant rhetoric is becoming clear. We now…
Unions – the Big Society is you
By Chris Cook “Unions set to fight plans for £6bn cuts” was the front page news of the…
Time for a change
By Chris Cook Gordon Brown’s fine and statesmanlike announcement has now started the race for the Labour leadership,…
Sovereign equity can revolutionise financing of the UK’s assets
By Chris Cook It was pleasing to see that the editorial in the Financial Times today – which…
