News Round-Up
13 January 2025
The Cold Truth – Britain’s Grim Winter’s Tale
13 January 2025
by Sallust
David Craig casts a critical eye over Rachel Reeves's career, suggesting that her exits from the Bank of England and HBOS may not have been entirely voluntary. Was she pushed, or did she jump?
The Bank of England Governor today joined Britain's biggest retailers including Tesco, Asda and Sainsbury's warning that job cuts are "inevitable" after Rachel Reeves's tax-hiking Budget.
Chancellor Rachel Reeves has been caught changing her online CV after the claim that she worked as an "economist" at the Bank of Scotland was exposed as untrue.
Bank of England staff have been told to share their pronouns at the start of meetings and use "gender neutral" language when speaking to customers.
The bond market chaos that shook Britain in the autumn of 2022 and triggered Liz Truss's humiliating exit was an inside job – at least according to recent research by the central bank at the heart of the mess.
Britain needs to bring in negative interest rates via digital currency, raise taxes and increase inflation, according to Jeremy Hunt's economic adviser. Why have the Tories turned their backs on prosperity?
We're having a "national conversation about the future of money", according to the Bank of England. But it's clear this "conversation" has only one permitted outcome, says Dr David McGrogan: the digital pound.
A jaw-dropping £3.4 billion in contracts from Treasury-linked organisations has been received by Fujitsu since 2019, despite its known involvement in the Horizon scandal.
Net Zero policies are pushing up inflation and hitting economic growth, a top Bank of England policymaker has warned – though she does not see that as a reason to oppose them.
Fears that Rishi Sunak's recent watering down of green targets will economically harm the U.K. are unfounded, says Ross Clark. If anything, it will do the opposite.
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