My mate David requested I do something on Public Sector Borrowing.  As it happens my daughter Lily is doing A level History at Durham Johnston Comprehensive.  David and I did the same A level at the same school, but 30 years earlier.  I thought it might fun to do a short history of public debt since… Read More PSBR, PFI, Off balance sheet accounting, and Fred Wharton

I met Paddy MacAloon from Prefab Sprout today, in the food hall at Fenwick. He looks like Gandalf.    As well as being one for the greatest song writers of the 80s he had a rather cool looking man bob, which as a young man I decided to copy.  The 80s man bob hasn’t aged… Read More Michael Gove was right. Maybe we shouldn’t trust experts?