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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I hope the Daily Mail remembers this headline
The Daily Mail has this headline today: The related article says: But has the Government done everything possible to crack Covid-19? The Mail reluctantly concludes
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Dogma is now a threat to our food supplies
Ben Wray edits Source, which is the daily newsletter from the Commonweal think tank in Scotland. It does not matter, I suggest, whether you are
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In the post coronavirus world the bond markets are no longer a threat to government
The FT has an article this morning with the headlines: How central banks beat back the ‘bond vigilantes’ Unlimited bond buying has made it near
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The end of lockdown might be incredibly difficult for many UK businesses and the government needs to plan for it
It would seem that a great many people still do not understand the nature of the economic crisis that coronavirus has created if comment I
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Half a million reads
I don’t especially go out of my way to make myself popular when writing here. Nor do I actively chase traffic. But I will be
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Understanding coronavirus data
There is a lot of criticism made of journalists but this by Ed Conway of Sky News is a good explanation of how to understand
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