People have little more than a week left to make up their minds in this election. If they are voting by post, it is somewhat
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The NHS: some facts
Some facts on the NHS seem to be important to inform debate. Try these: New Accident and Emergency waiting times figures are the worst since
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Beating financial secrecy: an explainer
I admit I do not agree with the Tax Justice Network simplistic view that tax funds government spending (because it doesn’t) but that apart this
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Economic questions for this election: why do some politicians want to push people into debt?
I liked this from Deficit Owls, an modern monetary theory site: This is a statement of fact, and not opinion. So, every time a politician
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The issue with wealth is some people’s incomprehension
As the Guardian reports this morning, and I am not going to even seek to précis this: The UK’s six richest people control as much
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Scotland is a very long way from the City of London
I was speaking at an event in the City yesterday. The occasion let me reach an audience that I might not usually engage with, and
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The UK is more regionally divided than any comparable advanced economy
Inequality should be a key theme of this election. And not just absolute measures, either, important as they are. Regional inequality is also a massive
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The problems within our justice system result from Tory dogmatically driven incompetence
Sentencing is not the problem within our justice system. Judges are more than capable of working out what any sentence they might give means, including
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The Tory plan to break our constitution
I hope Paul Spicker will forgive me seeking to amplify a point he made on his blog yesterday. He said: The government of the United
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