by David Boyle | 26 March 2015 | Blog
I’ve always believed that fairy tales have a role in understanding the contemporary world, and therefore of politics. This sounds a little sceptical or satirical, but I don’t mean it like that. You can use fairy tales as a positive way of extracting the underlying...
by David Boyle | 13 February 2015 | Blog
Take the NHS for example. The political narrative is always about the dearth of resources available – and of course this is bound to be a problem. But it is odd, nonetheless, given that so much of what needs doing requires no obvious training – visiting,...
by David Boyle | 1 February 2015 | Blog
We don’t live in a very literate age when it comes to economics. There are still people in Whitehall, even the Treasury, who believe that somehow – if cities decline or fall, if one place succumbs to grinding poverty – that is it the ‘market’ that did it....
by David Boyle | 7 January 2015 | Blog
I can’t now find the interview I heard today on the BBC about the prospects of deflation in the euro-zone. I have a feeling it was Gillian Tett. But whoever it was talked about the underlying psychology of deflation. She put it down to apathy. People have to...
by David Boyle | 14 November 2014 | Blog
Something is in the air. Change doesn’t happen very often, but now it is hard to find anyone who doesn’t subscribe to the following premises: 1. The UK is too centralised and power needs to be handed back to cities. 2. The mainstream economy appears to be...
