In January 2003 I created the idea of public country-by-country reporting. Today it became an European Union legal requirement and the resulting law is, despite the
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The Bank of England: too little, too riskily and too late on consumer credit?
The Guardian has reported: The Bank of England is stepping up its scrutiny of banks and other lenders on credit cards, personal loans and car
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Why fire safety, social care and essential services are at risk
As the FT reports this morning: Councils in England are calling for the end of austerity, saying the UK government plans to slash their core
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We can afford public sector pay rises and don’t need to increase tax to pay for them
It seems that there is almost universal political agreement now that the UK’s public servants deserve a serious pay rise after seven years of real
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Jersey: rotten to its core
Jersey has been found to be at serious fault with regard to child protection failures over many decades. It is staggering that Stuart Syvret, who
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Why bother?
In odd moments I confess I do wonder why I write this blog. This weekend has been one of those occasions. After a pretty exhausting
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It’s time for politicians to say sorry for the scandal of student debt
Student debt seems to be on the political agenda. The Tories are scared witless that Labour’s plan to abolish fees won over the young in
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The UK national debt is not 89% of GDP; it’s only 67% of GDP and it’s time the government and media stopped lying about this
The FT argued yesterday that UK national debt was too large at 85% of UK GDP. They got their figure wrong: in April the UK reported
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Why we need need more national debt
I have already written this morning about the need for an intelligent debate on the need for an increase in government spending . Let me
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