National Grid is a canary yearning for a coal mine

If a wind turbine spins, but there is no one around to use its power, does it still generate energy? The answer is, we may find out the hard way.

An ideological revolution shakes the magic money tree of MMT

We’ve seen many narratives come and go over the past few decades. Ways of looking at the world that determined what happens next. Another such shift is upon investors.

Labour’s plans for the OBR are an attack on democracy itself

Centralising judgement over the impact of budget policies in one place will merely enshrine one vision of economics. And the whole point of democracy is to allow different visions to compete