Columns for The Observer

You can find a full list of my pieces for The Observer (behind a paywall) here. Some of my favourites among those:

• Broadband and mobile bills are soaring in the UK – depending on who you talk to, May 2026 (inspired by a bonkers chart)
• Why Labour is making labour more costly, May 2026
• The battle for the future of Labour’s economic vision has begun, May 2026
• Serenity, courage and wisdom: the government’s path to economic growth, May 2026
• Why we should mind the UK’s rising wealth gap, May 2026
• Hedge funds have bet big on our bonds, and it’s a gamble that could cost us dear, April 2026
• A profile of Kevin Warsh, April 2026
• The great UK unemployment debate, March 2026
• UK risks shooting itself in the foot on defence, January 2026
• In Britain’s ‘hedgehog economy’, growth is wild, spiky – and fragile, October 2025
• Remember, remember Liz Truss this November, September 2025

Other writing

• We should be wary of a fiscal technocracy, The Times (£), May 2024.
• As the state gets bigger, taxes will rise. It’s time to be honest about that, Prospect Magazine, April 2023.
• Defence cuts effectively paid for UK welfare state for 60 years – but that looks impossible after Ukraine, The Conversation, March 2022.