What I want for Christmas
Friday, December 24th, 2021I think I was nine when I rumbled Santa. I don’t believe that wanting things is enough to make them happen. Nor do I believe
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There will be a backlash against Johnson and the Tory party's corruption
Friday, December 10th, 2021Boris Johnson lost one ethics adviser over Priti Patel’s bullying. Finding another was hard. It was not the most alluring proposition for anyone who knew
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The Counterbalance: How finance drives monopoly
Tuesday, November 23rd, 2021As has been my habit since it began publishing, I republish here the least edition of The Counterbalance, which is published by The Balanced Economy
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There is one issue to be resolved before Scotland can ever consider independence - and that is what currency it will use, to which there is only one answer
Sunday, November 14th, 2021A week ago I posted here on the Scottish currency issue, in the context of a stooshie (English: kerfuffle) I had created when commenting on
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What will bring Johnson down?
Monday, November 8th, 2021Boris Johnson took to joking recently that he might be prime minister for decades. His deliberate actions to undermine the democratic process suggest that this
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Why the SNP leadership needs to work for an independence for the benefit of the people of Scotland and not for the benefit of financial markets
Sunday, November 7th, 2021It seemed that I caused a bit of a stooshie in Scotland yesterday by suggesting that the SNP leadership were Tories who did not like
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It’s time to celebrate a global tax deal, and then to ask what’s next for tax justice to deliver
Sunday, October 31st, 2021The OECD’s new global tax deal has been ratified by the G20, to no great surprise to anyone. There is almost universal condemnation of this
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Politics is not a game without consequences. It really is time that the Tories realised that before more have to die.
Wednesday, October 13th, 2021Dominic Cummings said this on Twitter yesterday: He added: In other words, the Tories knowingly lied about both Brexit and its consequences for Northern Ireland
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It's time to celebrate a global tax deal that delivers much for tax justice - and to now move on to other more pressing tax issues that need more attention now
Sunday, October 10th, 2021The OECD global tax deal has been signed by 140 countries and jurisdictions. Some are claiming it represents a sell-out by the OECD and a
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