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Does the OBR run this country?– Published by Spiked on 7 March 2024

The tax-cut delusion– Published by Spiked on 22 February 2024

The tyranny of government-by-spreadsheet – Published by Spiked on 12 February 2024

Why industrial policy isn’t working – Published by Spiked on 12 January 2024

The economic change we need won’t come from Labour – Published by Spiked on 19 October 2023

The fall of China? Don’t bet on it – Published by Spiked on 2 September 2023

The slow decay of the British economy – Published by Spiked on 13 August 2023

The dystopian truth about a universal basic income – Published by Spiked on 29 June 2023

The inflation trap – Published by Spiked on 15 May 2023

This is a financial crisis waiting to happen – Published by Spiked on 21 March 2023

The problem with Hunt’s ‘back to work’ budget – Published by Spiked on 16 March 2023

How not to grow the economy – Published by Spiked on 13 March 2023

The myth of Britain’s missing workers – Published by Spiked on 14 February 2023

Britain has given up on growth – Published by Spiked on 31 January 2023

Biden’s China-bashing is a threat to world peace – Published by Spiked on 27 December 2022

No one voted for Rishi Sunak’s austerity – Published by Spiked on 4 December 2022

Why Trussonomics imploded – Published by Spiked on 21 October 2022

Britain’s zombie economy stands exposed – Published by Spiked on 30 September 2022

The battle for growth – Published by Spiked on 22 September 2022

Fiddling with taxes won’t fix the economy – Published by Spiked on 1 August 2022

Brexit is not to blame for our economic woes – Published by Spiked on 28 July 2022

We are lurching from crisis to crisis – Published by Spiked on 3 June 2022

The end of the American century – Published by Spiked on 2 May 2022

The cost-of-living crisis has been decades in the making – Published by Spiked on 19 March 2022

The end of the age of globalisation – Published by Spiked on 7 March 2022

The fundamental flaw of Levelling Up – Published by Spiked on 10 February 2022

The fatalism of the inflation debate – Published by Spiked on 3 February 2022

Why China haunts America – Published by Spiked on 31 December 2021

Who will save Britain from its never-ending slump? – Published by Spiked on 28 October 2021

How to bring about a high-wage economy – Published by Spiked on 15 October 2021

Why is America playing war games with China? – Published by Spiked on 26 September 2021

Shutdown: the end of an economic era? – Published by Spiked on 12 September 2021

Inflation: another symptom of the zombie economy – Published by Spiked on 16 July 2021

The G7 is not all it’s cracked up to be – Published by Spiked on 8 June 2021

A post-Covid boom? Not so fast – Published by Spiked on 24 May 2021

A ‘rebound’ to the Old Normal is not good enough – Published by Spiked on 6 May 2021

Another crisis wasted – Published by Spiked on 4 March 2021

The economic transformation we need – Published by Spiked on 19 February 2021

Please, Rishi, stop evading the problem – Published by Spiked on 17 February 2021

A culture war against China – Published by Spiked on 28 December 2020

Don’t blame Covid for economic devastation – Published by Spiked on 24 November 2020

A roadmap for economic renewal – Published by Spiked on 9 October 2020

Rishi Sunak’s job-destruction scheme – Published by Spiked on 25 September 2020

The tyranny of the EU’s state-aid rules – Published by Spiked on 15 September 2020

How to stop the next cold war – Published by Spiked on 11 September 2020

Three myths surrounding Boris Johnson’s ‘New Deal’ –  Published by Spiked on 2 July 2020

Why the West must stop bashing China –  Published by Spiked on 23 June 2020

It’s time to transform the UK economy – Published by Spiked on 15 May 2020

The making of an economic crisis – Published by Spiked on 28 April 2020

The destruction of the old world order – Published by Spiked on 23 April 2020

After the pandemic: whither capitalism? – Published by Spiked on 3 April 2020

The coronavirus cash crunch – Published by Spiked on 20 March 2020

Break free of the fiscal rules – Published by Spiked on 12 March 2020

If another crash comes, don’t blame coronavirus – Published by Spiked on 4 March 2020

Brexit: it’s time to seize the day – Published by Spiked on 31 January 2020

Fully Automated Vulgar Marxism – Published by Spiked on 7 January 2020

Labour won’t transform our economy – Published by Spiked on 29 November 2019

This £1 trillion row leaves voters shortchanged – Published by Spiked on 13 November 2019

Beyond the zombie economy – Published by Spiked on 21 October 2019

The myth of Corbyn’s radicalism – Published by Spiked on 20 September 2019

When the next crisis comes, don’t blame the central bankers – Published by Spiked on 8 July 2019

How to help British Steel workers – Published by Spiked on 30 May 2019

The unravelling of the international order – Published by Spiked on 15 May 2019

Globalism: a world in chains – Part 1 published by Spiked on 15 February 2019 and part 2 published on 22 February 2019

Tariffs are a distraction – Published by Spiked on 8 February 2019

No Deal is no threat to business – Published by Spiked on 31 January 2019

Time to bust the No Deal myths – Published by Spiked on 17 January 2019

2019: the economic picture isn’t rosy – Published by Spiked on 30 December 2018

The crash 10 years on – Published by Spiked on 17 September 2018

No Deal is nothing to fear – Published by Spiked on 22 August 2018

Trade wars cause real wars? It’s not that simple– Published by Spiked on 6 June 2018

Philip Hammond’s ‘Tiggerish’ delusions – Published by Spiked on 14 March 2018

Making sense of the stock-market turmoil – Published by Spiked on 13 February 2018

After Carillion: we need to end zombie capitalism – Published by Spiked on 16 January 2018

Free market vs nationalisation? It’s a delusional divide  – Published by Spiked on 30 October 2017

A successful industrial strategy requires letting zombie firms die – Published by City A.M. on 20 October 2017

Ten Wasted Years: The Crash One Decade On – Published by Spiked on 29 August 2017

We have nothing to fear but the fear of Brexit itself – Published by Spiked on 24 July 2017

Sorry, Corbyn, but ‘anti-austerity’ is not enough – Published by Spiked on 15 June 2017

May’s industrial strategy will fail unless it clears out zombie firms – Published by City A.M. on 4 May 2017

Foster new sectors – A Response to Questions 1 and 2 in the Green Paper Building our Industrial Strategy (Department of Business, Energy, and Industrial Strategy, January 2017), submitted on 30 March 2017

The truth about the Single Market – Published by Spiked on 24 March 2017

We need big, bold economic thinking in the Brexit era – Published by Spiked on 9 March 2017

Keeping the zombie economy on its feet – Published by Spiked on 26 January 2017

Economic sloth: stop blaming it on Brexit – Published by Spiked on 24 November 2016

Should Carney stay or go? That’s the wrong question – Published by Spiked on 2 November 2016

Anti-Brexit anxieties have become a self-fulfilling prophecy – Published by Spiked on 13 October 2016

Economic renewal after Brexit – Published by Spiked on 28 July 2016

Brexit: from Project Fear to Project Hysteria – Published by Spiked on 30 June 2016

No, Remain has not won the economic argument – Published by Spiked on 6 June 2016

Steel-industry woes: what Britain must do next – Published by Spiked on 5 April 2016

Economic crisis begins at home – Published by Spiked on 26 January 2016

The real reason we should fight for a Brexit – Published by Spiked on 26 October 2015

Unleashing business investment will revive Britain’s zombie economy – Published by International Business Times on 12 October 2015

Forget Corbynomics. We need a new industrial revolution – Published by Spiked on 7 September 2015

Germany: between a rock and a hard place – Published by Prospect on 25 October 2011