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Britain's Independent Economic Think Tank
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English
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17 episodes
since Aug. 8, 2026
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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, and the blame then lands on pensioners, the rich or people on universal credit. He joins Damian Pudner, Director of the Great British Think…
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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 people live in. Benedict Spence joins Damian Pudner, Director of the Great British Think Tank, to go through what that means for families, why…
Is Britain a "capitalist command economy"? Dr Christopher Snowdon, Head of Lifestyle Economics at the Institute of Economic Affairs, joins Damian Pudner to explain how government now steers private industry with targets and fines, from heat pumps and electric cars to supermarket calories, and why i…
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 British Think Tank, to talk about what AI is already doing inside companies and what it means for the rest of us. They cover why the doom na…
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 Think Tank, to work out what is driving the global bond sell-off and how far it has to run.
They cover forced sellers and the French spread, …
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 that spends to build things that pay back, rather than on transfers it cannot afford.
They go through the flip from investment to entitleme…
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 Tank, to go through what actually changes, what it saves, who pays in the meantime, and why a speech this big looks like the first draft of a …
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 autumn: mortgage approvals at their lowest since December 2023, why mortgage rates now track the oil price, the reported plan to pull the m…
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 runway, tax rises to pay for social care, defence funding, and whether rejoining the EU belongs in Labour's next manifesto.
Guest: Benedict Spence…
Pints & Policy, 26 September 2026. The 10-year gilt closed on Friday at 5.36%. Marcus Ashworth, markets commentator and former Bloomberg Opinion columnist, joins Damian Pudner to ask who is selling bonds: hedge funds unwinding big trades, Big Tech borrowing that now rivals the banks', and a Fed…
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