I noticed this in an FT email this morning: There is, apparently, ‘no money’, The French government fell this week because it could not find
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Fraud costs how much?
The government’s own data on fraud suggests it loses £58.8 billion a year, but that’s bound to be understated as there are no systems to
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Christmas tat
I was, as is my habit, working in a coffee shop yesterday afternoon, editing videos to a background of the pop songs that now seem
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Trump and Badenoch are opposing diversity – and big business is beginning to side with them
As the FT reports this morning: US companies are accelerating their retreat from diversity and inclusion initiatives amid an all-out assault from conservatives emboldened by
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Good businesses don’t maximise profits. They maximise happiness.
The whole of the microeconomic theory of business is based on the idea that businesses maximise profit. They don’t because doing so works for no
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Keir Starmer is no closer to providing answers
I struggled with Keir Starmer’s speech yesterday. The most obvious question to ask was ‘why’ did he make it? It seemed like nothing more than
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As reboots go, this one has flopped already
A few thoughts on what Starmer has had to say this morning: I think you can tell that I am underwhelmed. So, too, it appears
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Mounjaro is a sign that the government does not care
As the BBC has reported this morning: A new weight-loss jab will be rolled out on the NHS in England – but it could take
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Fools and their money are easily parted
The media is getting very excited by the value of a Bitcoin having supposedly reached $100,000 overnight. It didn’t. What happened was that became the
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