'There's now a fear of Scottish identity among Unionists'
Billy Kay asks why there are so few Unionists who see themselves as patriotic Scots these days
I'm no comms genius but is it advisable to declare yourself a cost of living government when it's pretty much guaranteed (because of energy price cap) that we'll see an uptick in inflation tomorrow?
These data divergences are intolerable and ministers don't seem to realise that they could be the difference between success and failure. HMG needs to urgently get a grip of the numbers
And finally a big drop in output per hour during Q2 26, widening the divergence between the LFS and HMRC-derived measures. LFS has hours worked up by a punchy 1.6% QoQ!
1/ Dear god… Tim Rideout’s currency group still haven’t learned how speculators short-sell a currency.
If you buy something and then sell it, you don’t have a short position, do you? You have no position at all. A short-seller *borrows* the currency first (from a bank)…