Articles
Writing on economics, policy, and the systems that sit behind the numbers. These pieces dig into how money is created, where public spending actually goes, what inflation measures miss, and why the gap between official statistics and lived experience keeps growing. Each article draws on the data and sources in the resource library.
Shadows on the wall: The monetary myths that shape British politics
The Treasury tells us there is no money. The Bank of England tells us it operates independently. The OBR tells us the deficit must be closed. They have been projecting these shadows on the wall for so long that most of us, MPs included, have mistaken them for reality.
The vexed question of whether the UK can afford Modern Monetary Theory doesn’t even make sense
Modern Monetary Theory isn’t a potentially risky radical fiscal plan but simply a description of how the British state already spends
When democracy requires more than a physics degree
Last week I gave a talk on public finance, and during the Q&A at the end, a physicist in the audience who is working on fusion research said something along the lines of “I still find our monetary system confusing”. It might have had something to do with my delivery, but I think it went deeper than that.