The disastrous consequences of the Bank of England’s actions are now becoming clear
Following the 2008 crash, the Bank of England embarked on an unprecedented course of “quantitative easing” (QE) in an attempt...
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Banks must be made to realise they are here to serve the people, not their own pockets
Yet the thing about banks in particular is that though they behave as if they were free enterprise, commercial organisations...
Banking’s problem is bigger than NatWest
The resignation of Dame Alison Rose as chief executive of NatWest in the early hours of Wednesday morning must count...
Don’t be fooled by inflation – Britain is hurtling towards recession
This has brought into play another abiding economic truism: that periods of excessive demand don’t just peter out and die...
I blame EU rules for my banking travails, which Britain has madly adopted
My revelation that I have been “de-banked” has brought the biggest response I’ve ever had. Political figures across the spectrum...
It is time for short-changed savers to boycott Britain’s contemptuous big banks
It’s the work of sheepish officials who have failed to hold these companies to account, scrambling to make amends in...
The EU still needs Britain more than Britain needs the EU
Second, and perhaps more importantly, the programme is a bureaucratic nightmare with, as a consequence, an increasingly dismal record on...
Britain’s debt addiction makes a stock market revival impossible
In that sense, one of the main beneficiaries of a weak stock market is the Government itself. It ensures greater...
The facade of the ‘grown-up’ EU has been irrevocably smashed
For Remainers, the EU has always been a bastion of grown-uppery: grown-up policies, grown-up attitudes and grown-up attitude towards humane,...
Britain needs bold pension reforms – or we face more Thames Waters
This has created a void into which the “live money” of international finance has stepped, with Thames Water and many...
