In the run-up to her crunch autumn budget, Rachel Reeves will seek to recruit a heavyweight economic adviser after the role of John Van Reenen is reduced.

The climate change problem always was weaning industrial society off fossil fuels. Do that and - as the IPCC itself points out - we’re done.

That headline being, roughly, the message coming from Grace Blakeley. Big corporations plan things so the state can too - it is, after all, just fewer planners, right?

Rebecca Renard-Wilson has stopped shopping at Target and all things Amazon including Whole Foods and Amazon Fresh.

One of the problems - one, note - this country faces is the marginal tax and benefits withdrawal rate faced as anyone works their way up out of poverty.

One of those rallying cries which we don’t think would gain all that much support if people understood it.

Poe’s Law: without a clear indicator of the author's intent, any parodic or sarcastic expression of extreme views can be mistaken by some readers for a sincere expression of those views.

Tax them, tax them over there to pay for what we want!

Red tape is a “boot on the neck of businesses” and risks undermining the UK’s dash for growth, Rachel Reeves has said.

The first chart is what government spends - largely and roughly and good enough. The second - largely, good enough etc - is that spending plus the varied redistributions of income performed.

This is something that all too many - sadly including all too many who rule us - fail to grasp.

A continual complaint of ours is that when government does something wrong, makes a mistake - and my, how unusual is that? - the reaction just never is to reverse the mistake.