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Down British Rail (ways) memory lane. I get a lot of feedback from readers of my autobiography “Derbyshire boy” but this one even took me down memory lane. In fact, I felt quite emotional. A lady contacted me to say … Continue reading →

Following on from being the first major monetary authority to start unwinding quantitative easing (with £800 billion of gilts to go at), the Bank of England has pulled off another blinder. In the blink of an eye it has made … Continue reading →

The end of a twelve-year era is over. Super low rates of interest and money creating quantitative easing are history. Thank the Lord for that. Yes, painful for the non-acknowledgers of rainy days but essential to stem the demon of … Continue reading →

The plot of my next book is beginning to take shape. It will use some of the characters now familiar from the Whitby trilogy but aims to be stand-alone. What has surprised me most is that it is set in … Continue reading →

Is confidence returning? You might think £750m is a lot of money: relative to £838 billion it isn’t. Still, it’s the start of quantitative tightening and achieved easily by the Bank of England at 2.15pm today (1st Nov 2022 ) … Continue reading →

Which economic experiment failed as evidenced by Inflated asset values Creating a debt-fuelled economy Shutting a generation out of the property market Failing to produce growth Widening inequality The answer is so-called quantitative easing i.e. printing money to ease a … Continue reading →

More people want to express this sentiment than actually buy this book of verse. Their opinion is hard to repudiate: not least since I don’t like salami. My excuse is that the title came to me as what, at the … Continue reading →