What will happen in July?
Tuesday, April 6th, 2021This new chart from The London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, via the Guardian, makes clear that the government’s own Covid advisers think another
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Why does our the government want to facilitate fraud and corruption?
Monday, April 5th, 2021As the Guardian reported over the weekend: A multimillionaire MP who enjoys a Downton Abbey lifestyle funded by historical family links to the slave trade
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The FT’s analysis of the economics of an independent Scotland is a catalogue of errors and false assumptions
Saturday, April 3rd, 2021The FT has published the first part of what it says will be a series on the risk of the UK breaking up. The article
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The injustice of the rentier economy is real and ongoing
Friday, April 2nd, 2021I do not apologise for this lengthy quote from Nils Pratley in the Guardian as it is key to my argument that follows. Talking of
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Deliveroo does not deliver
Wednesday, March 31st, 2021I was amused to read this in the FT this morning: Deliveroo’s shares tumbled 30 per cent in the company’s London debut on Wednesday, in
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The Counterbalance: Small businesses versus the platforms
Tuesday, March 30th, 2021I am sharing this newsletter from the new project called Counterbalance that is being run by my old friend and colleague JohnChristensen with Nick Shaxson
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Corporate accounting for tax is not good enough
Tuesday, March 30th, 2021I was having a discussion yesterday on the weaknesses in the financial reporting of tax by some of the UK’s largest companies. The idea put
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The real economy’s dependence on QE is bigger than most think right now
Monday, March 29th, 2021The FT notes this morning that: The latest UK economic data has been significantly better than economists expected, suggesting households and companies have been more
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It’s time for the government to learn that what they call greed does not always work
Sunday, March 28th, 2021As the Guardian notes this morning: The government has scrapped its flagship green homes grant scheme, the centrepiece of Boris Johnson’s promise to “build back
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