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£100 off bills costs £2.6bn. Who pays? | Healey's Budget, the OBR and long gilts
The morning after John Healey's first Budget, Marcus Ashworth and Michael Brown join Damian Pudner, Director of the Great British Think Tank, to go through…
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France pays 172bp over Germany. Who steps in? | Healey's ‘puffins’, $117 oil and the Budget
France's 10-year borrowing costs closed 172 basis points above Germany's this week, the widest gap since the euro crisis, and the ECB has yet to say where it…
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Debt passes £3 trillion. Who pays it down? | Jackdaw, net zero and the SAS investigations
UK national debt passed £3 trillion this week for the first time. A week before John Healey's first Budget, Benedict Spence joins Damian Pudner, Director of…
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Who's actually seeing this growth? | Bank taxes, the IFS's £35bn and the housing market
UK GDP grew 0.1% in August, and in the three months to August only the services sector grew. Marcus Ashworth and Michael Brown join Damian Pudner, Director of…
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Don't hike into a supply shock | The Bank's 5 November call, France's spread and a UK bond crisis
Gilt yields hit their highest since 1998 this week, and markets expect the Bank of England to raise rates on 5 November. Marcus Ashworth and Michael Brown join…
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£45m to make one station step-free? | Growth, the Bank's QT losses and the universal credit trap
David Belle, macro trader and founder of FINK, has written a report on Britain's economy and its debt. His diagnosis: Westminster has set the wrong incentives…
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No inheritance tax on the family home? | Stamp duty, legal migration and Tories v Reform
Kemi Badenoch used her Conservative conference speech to promise that nobody pays inheritance tax on their family home, and to scrap stamp duty on the homes…
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Britain's capitalist command economy | Christopher Snowdon on a BBC tax, vaping and 20mph
Is Britain a "capitalist command economy"? Dr Christopher Snowdon, Head of Lifestyle Economics at the Institute of Economic Affairs, joins Damian Pudner to…
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Vannda's Matt Cull on agents, costs and jobs
Matt Cull, founder and CEO of Vannda, has spent 25 years putting finance and operations systems into businesses. He joins Damian Pudner, Director of the Great…
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30-year gilts break 6% for the first time since 1998 | France, the Budget and an early election
Thirty-year gilt yields broke 6% this week for the first time since 1998. Marcus Ashworth and Michael Brown join Damian Pudner, Director of the Great British…
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Nearly £40bn a year on housing benefit | SDP's Ross Baglin on debt, migration and defence
Ross Baglin, interim leader of the SDP, joins Damian Pudner, Director of the Great British Think Tank, to make the case for an "investment state": a government…
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The triple lock is no longer taboo | £15bn by 2040, a care service and an early election?
Andy Burnham used his Labour conference speech to put the triple lock on the table. Benedict Spence joins Damian Pudner, Director of the Great British Think…
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Mansion tax from £1.5m? Treble the headache | Mortgage approvals, stamp duty and prime London
Tom Bill, Head of UK Residential Research at Knight Frank, joins Damian Pudner, Director of the Great British Think Tank, for a read on the housing market this…
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A 2.5% deposit? It's 2007 all over again | Heathrow, social care taxes and rejoining the EU
Benedict Spence joins Damian Pudner on the new Your First Home scheme (2.5% deposits on new builds, with the government lending 20%), the Heathrow third…
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Gilts at 5.36%: who's selling? | The Bank's QT U-turn, a Fed hike and the Budget
Pints & Policy, 26 September 2026. The 10-year gilt closed on Friday at 5.36%. Marcus Ashworth, markets commentator and former Bloomberg Opinion columnist…
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Can Iran outlast Trump? | Chagos, a "Ministry of Truth" and AI regulation
Pints & Policy, 23 September 2026. Parliament is in recess until 12 October, so Damian Pudner and Benedict Spence take the UN General Assembly week: Trump's…
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5.4m on PIP and DLA | Welfare, wealth taxes, the mansion tax and an early election
Benedict Spence joins Damian Pudner, Director of the Great British Think Tank, for a second week on the state of the public finances: the mansion tax the…
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The AI Cold War has begun | A $30bn blow-up, the Treasury trade and détente with China
Izabella Kaminska argues the AI CapEx boom was never really an investment boom, it was an arms race. She and Damian Pudner map how "safety" became a convenient…
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"Recession in all but name" | Reform's £72m, welfare v defence and the Budget
Benedict Spence joins Damian Pudner, Director of the Great British Think Tank, on Reform's GBP 72m weekend, the assisted dying vote, welfare versus defence…
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The market's strong message on UK fiscal policy | Gilts, £20bn of tax rises and the Budget
Gilt yields at multi-decade highs, a 45 basis point "moron premium" over US Treasuries, and a Chancellor with around GBP 20bn to find before the Budget…
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@GreatBritishThinkTank Damian Pudner hosts Michael Brown and Marcus AshworthDamian Pudner is an economist specialising in monetary policy and central bank…