As AccountingWEB (of which I was for a decade at the start of the century a contributing editor) noted yesterday: The expected timeline for small
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Labour’s audit failure
I have the Instagram post out Labour’s audit failure on The Canary site this afternoon: View this post on Instagram A post shared
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Keen’s Law
Steve Keen wrote this on Substack yesterday: YouTube popped a video into my feed of Niall Ferguson (the author of The Ascent of Money: a financial
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Economic questions: the Wynne Godley question
This is one of a series of posts that will ask what the most pertinent question raised by a prominent influencer of political economy might have been,
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The UK could end “shadowy maritime activity”
I posted this on Twitter (X) last night: I posted after listening to John Healey MP, our defence secretary, talking in the House of Commons.
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The Tax Research LLP accounts for 2025
The accounts for Tax Research LLP, which publishes this blog and the RichardJMurphy YouTube channel, for the year to 31 March 2025, are now available on
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Just work out what you want to do
I did a video yesterday on campaigning and why most of it is just moaning. I put up a poll on YouTube asking why most campaigns fail.
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Is it time to abolish the OBR?
Is the Office for Budget Responsibility really protecting the UK economy, or enforcing austerity? I argue that the OBR was designed to remove democratic control
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Why the UK budget system is broken — and how to fix it
Rachel Reeves just gave us a masterclass in how NOT to run a budget. We got leaks, U-turns, political theatre, but almost no real economic
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