Brexit has failed. MPs are admitting it. When will the government?
Friday, March 18th, 2022The Public Accounts Committee has published a new report this morning on the lack of apparent benefits from post-Brexit trade deals. The press release says:
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Everything has changed, but when will ministers notice?
Wednesday, March 16th, 2022At least Martin Wolf in the FT gets the idea that everything really has changed as a result of the war in Russia. In the
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Why is Johnson begging that the UK become dependent upon Saudi Arabia, with its appalling human rights record? Is it that Johnson just loves a tyrant? Or is he just stupid when all the money that we need for a green transition is readily available in the UK?
Wednesday, March 16th, 2022As the FT reports this morning: Boris Johnson is hoping to line up major Saudi investment in British renewable energy on a visit to Riyadh
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China looks to be in new economic trouble - and that has serious implications for us
Tuesday, March 15th, 2022Just when you thought the economic issues that we face are down to war, the aftermath of Covid and the incompetence response of our government
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The absence of any sort of strategic thinking within the government is why we're in a mess now
Monday, March 14th, 2022This morning’s newspapers, mixed with some comment from Sunday’s, reveal a continued confusion at the heart of UK economic and political policy that suggests how
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The UK’s far right will be rubbing their hands in glee at the opportunity war in Ukraine provides to them. Unless we act now our own democracy is at very real risk.
Friday, March 11th, 2022We are at war and most UK politicians appear to be in denial about that fact. That worries me, because the consequences are enormous. It
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There are lessons to be learned from businesses pulling out of Russia, most especially when it comes to climate change
Thursday, March 10th, 2022The Russian assault on Ukraine continues to shock, offend all sensibilities and create feelings of despair about the human capacity to be inhumane to others
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We need open corporate registries now
Thursday, March 10th, 2022Tax Research UK was one of 127 signatories to this statement, issued yesterday: This statement, signed by 127 leading transparency, anti-corruption, journalist and open data
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If we have more than £15 trillion worth of personal wealth in the UK to suggest that we cannot afford to save the planet is quite absurd
Wednesday, March 9th, 2022I was searching data on UK wealth yesterday, checking whether the office for National statistics had updated the information that it publishes on this issue,
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