I don’t believe our Brexit stress is over. I don’t believe a deal is in sight. I don’t think Parliament has a clue what to
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This is the problem: the economy is being run for the benefit of people already wealthy at cost to us all
This graph comes from a new report from Boston University and UNCTAD on Principles for a Global Green New Deal. It shows the shift from
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It’s time to end this farce
I could have kept an eye on the news from Brussels last night. But I had suffered enough. As a family we opted out of
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The impasse will survive
It looks like the EU will deliver their verdict on the UK today. It is that we are unable to decide. And because we can’t
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Dear Derek: a letter to Scotland’s finance minister
I share this blog post from Craig Dalzell, head of research at the Common Weal think tank in Scotland, addressed to Derek Mackay, the SNP’s
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Accountancy in crisis: fundamental reform is needed
I had this article published on the Economia website of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales yesterday: The accountancy profession is in
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Maybe, just maybe, we need an extension
Like a drunk, Brexit staggers on without a sense of destination or urgency, with all the sorrows implicit in the behaviour fully on view and
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Don’t put London bankers in charge of Scotland’s independence
I have an article with the above title on CommonSpace – the blog of the CommonWeal think tank in Scotland this morning. It’s not fair to
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It’s time to revoke and move on
Howard Reed challenged my view that No Deal was almost inevitable this week, expressed yesterday. His logic for doing so was that May will revoke
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