2020 April 21

What will deliver a Green New Deal?

Posted on April 21 2020

My thoughts on the conditions that will deliver a Green New Deal, based on a discussion I had in an online seminar yesterday:

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The First Dog On The Moon has the UK sussed….

Posted on April 21 2020

I think this is a classic: The whole strip is here. Worth reading.

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It’s not the excess deaths now that matter (although each is a tragedy): it’s the fact that they will continue that is going to hurt us so very badly

Posted on April 21 2020

The data for excess deaths is out from the ONS. Because I am teaching this afternoon I have been a bit distracted, but now I
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Tax After Coronavirus (TACs) : Tax and human rights

Posted on April 21 2020

As was discussed in the introduction to this section on Tax and Society within the Tax After Coronavirus (TACs) project, the relationship between tax and
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Question of the day: should we bail out companies that use tax havens?

Posted on April 21 2020

As was noted in some media yesterday: Denmark and Poland are refusing to let companies registered in offshore tax havens access financial aid from their coronavirus bailout packages. The
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Greening the Economy

Posted on April 21 2020

I took part in a debate last night (literally, last night as it ended at 1.30am this morning for me as it was US based)
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British banking is failing the UK yet again, aided and abetted by a Chancellor who shares its mentality

Posted on April 21 2020

The FT noted yesterday that: Britain’s chief financial regulator has said the coronavirus pandemic is posing the first serious test of business banking rules introduced after
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