Columns for The Observer
You can find a full list of my pieces for The Observer (behind the paywall) here. Some of my favourites among those:
- Fiscal rules aren’t working – we need a new traffic light system to show the way, The Observer (£), February 2026
- UK risks shooting itself in the foot on defence, The Observer (£), January 2026
- In Britain’s ‘hedgehog economy’, growth is wild, spiky – and fragile, The Observer (£), October 2025
- Remember, remember Liz Truss this November, The Observer (£), September 2025
Other media
- 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.