Will the Bank of England continue with its policy of creating financial mayhem tomorrow?
Wednesday, August 2nd, 2023It is widely expected that the Bank of England will increase its base rate for the fourteenth time since 2021 when it meets tomorrow. Whether
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ISAs have a role in UK savings, but the creation of ISA millionaires was not one of them
Wednesday, August 2nd, 2023As The Independent reports: The number of “Isa millionaires” has surged to more than 4,000, according to HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) figures. Some 4,070 savers were sitting on
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Sunak is turning up the heat and the anger may be hard to constrain
Tuesday, August 1st, 2023There was always going to be a moment when the far-right would try to mount a backlash against the inevitable progress of the climate change
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The unbanked - and what to do about the problem
Monday, July 31st, 2023If the media was to be believed, the fact that there are people without access to bank accounts in the UK has only just been
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There is lots of money available - if you know where to look for it
Monday, July 31st, 2023I think the time has come for me to note the project that I am working on this summer. Like so many readers of this
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Why won’t Labour deliver what the people of this country want?
Sunday, July 30th, 2023Kenan Malik wrote this in an opinion column in The Guardian today: The paradox is that the public in Britain is more liberal today about
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Is there a future for ethical banking?
Saturday, July 29th, 2023I posted this on Twitter this morning: The question is serious, and gets to the core of the Farage canpaign. The object of Farage, Sunak,
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What NGO tax justice campaigners could be doing right now
Thursday, July 27th, 2023As readers of this blog will have noted, I was scathing of the Tax Justice Network’s new State of Tax Justice report a couple of
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Why we need a national debt
Wednesday, July 26th, 2023I had a request yesterday that I write an article explaining the national debt, most especially in the context of modern monetary theory. Let me
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