As the Guardian has noted this afternoon: To help NHS trusts deliver what’s needed, Hancock has written off £13.4bn of historic NHS debt. He said
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The government has now announced there will be bank loan and credit card repayment holidays – which I asked for on budget day, three weeks ago
Three weeks late the Guardian has noted that the government has today said: The financial regulator has announced plans to freeze loan and credit card
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In one hour today we moved from recession, to depression and then on to slump
There had to be a statistic that would make people appreciate just how serious the current economic crisis is. That statistic has now arrived. It
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Johnson needs to stop lying
This is from Politico’s morning email, which is worth subscribing to: PM direct: No doubt warned of the incoming volley of abuse, Johnson tried to get
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The UK economy will be a wasteland by this summer
There are some words you say that you never regret. When Jeremey Vine asked me what I thought of Rish Sunak’s budget on March 11
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HSBC: the bank I love disliking
I am not a fan of most banks: the worlds illicit financial flows pass through their branches. Their tax haven operations have fuelled corruption. Their
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The world can’t COP out of climate change
I know we have an unprecedented crisis going on. Or rather, I know we have two going on. Coronavirus is killing right now. And it’s
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The UK’s suffering from coronavirus will have been exacerbated by choice – and our government will be to blame for that
The scale of the mismanagement of the coronavirus crisis in both the UK and USA is now becoming very apparent. John Burns-Murdoch is easily the
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