Constraining government spending as a policy goal is misguided, illogical and can lead to economic instability

Burnham attacks the poorest so he can save enough money to make war. He seems to be unaware that the UK Government issues the UK pound and you can't run out of something you issue yourself. It is ...

Much of the public commentary on economic matters, particularly pertaining to fiscal matters, is conditioned by incomplete information and the imposition of false constraints. The crisis narratives th...

The former colonial governor of the northern province, Alister Jack, who was given a peerage by Rishi Sunak as part of a back room deal. Jack rejected an earlier nomination by Boris Johnson in 2023…

Exclusive: The details behind the financial transactions that bankers have flagged up to the National Crime Agency

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The Reform UK leader did not declare benefits including staff, security and housing by crypto-gambler George Cottrell, our investigation reveals

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Why the full funding rule is no longer fit for purpose and how a demand-led tap issuance model for gilts can improve how we conduct economic policy

This text was originally part of an article I was writing to explain the mechanics of government spending: an article in which I unpick the myth that UK government deficits are funded by ‘borrowing’ f...

State money is an idea, not a thing. Politicians will never run out of ideas. Whatever gets authorised by Parliament gets spent. The legal framework is set up to ensure that is the case, and it has n...

Modern Monetary Theory (MMT) shows the UK government doesn't borrow to fund its spending — the money was already issued by the central bank.

If I have to listen to too many more UK pundits on TV asking how the government will be able to borrow the currency of which it is the sole issuer, or why they have to worry about the interest rate th...

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Modern Monetary Theory (MMT) exposing the mechanics of how interest rates are set: moving past the dangerous myths

Hampshire force whose officers responded to the murder of 18-year-old has a higher than average racial disparity

But there is no shame in that...

The self-proclaimed 'straight-talking' Reform UK leader has been far from straight about who is funding his attempted rise to power, reports Iain Overton

WES Streeting branded the SNP an “existential threat” to the UK as he addressed MPs for the first time since quitting the Government.

Posts uncovered by Byline Times show newly-elected Reform UK Councillor Ken Tranter comparing Muslims to cockroaches, who would "take over" the country

. Public debt is normally nothing to fear, especially if it is financed within the country itself (but even foreign loans can be beneficent for the economy if invested in the right way). Some membe…

It turns out that even ChatGPT has a more stringent approach to accuracy than the former professor, Matt Goodwin, reports Mic Wright

Did you know that Nigel Farage has committed 17 breaches of MP’s code of conduct, and failed to declare £333,000 in outside interests - 3x an MPs annual salary?

Digital currency donations have been turned into sterling to make them much less easy to track, sources say

Reform, Tory and some media rhetoric runs contrary to poll showing far more voters for net zero than against it