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The speakable truth about housing

by Andrew Baum | Oct 9, 2023 | The Professor, zEditor's pick, zLead Article

I enjoy reading good journalism, whether it chimes with my political view or not. Sometimes, however, I wonder whether I am reading something which is deliberately misleading – “we send the EU £350 million a week – let’s fund our NHS instead” – or just plain ignorant....

Inflation: I’ve been analysing the Bank of England’s forecasts over the past two years – here’s how they got it wrong

by Costas Milas | Oct 2, 2023 | The Economist, zNewsletter

The Bank of England (BoE) has been strongly criticised for failing to predict the surge in inflation. Had it done so, it could have reacted more quickly and prevented inflation from rising as high as 11% in autumn 2022. The bank acknowledges this...

Where next for UK house prices?

by Yolande Barnes | Sep 25, 2023 | The Professor, zEditor's pick, zLead Article

Summary of Yolande Barnes’s contribution to “Where Next for House Prices” (with some additions) at FT Weekend Festival, 2 September 2023. Where will house prices be this time next year? I think it’s inflation that’s going to strip out the value of housing over the...

Age, not class, is now the biggest divide in British politics, new research confirms

by John Curtice | Sep 23, 2023 | Political Insider, zNewsletter

“Class is the basis of British politics; all else is embellishment and detail.” So wrote Peter Pulzer, the former Gladstone professor of politics at the University of Oxford in the 1960s. Nowadays, however, it is age, not social class, that is the biggest demographic...

For better or worse, the Conservative Party has not seen the last of the Trussites

by William Atkinson | Sep 23, 2023 | Political Insider, zNewsletter

Gavin Williamson once said that Russia should ‘shut up’ and ‘go away’. I must confess to feeling a similar sentiment whenever Liz Truss tries to re-enter public life. Yesterday, our former Prime Minister and future pub quiz question answer made a...

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