The FT has reported that: Ministers have threatened to take direct control of Transport for London unless mayor Sadiq Khan accepts a package of measures
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The UK government said it could not legislate for Jersey to stop tax abuse and corruption, but apparently it can when it comes to fishing
The UK government always said it could not legislate for Jersey. And so it said it would not intervene to stop tax abuse and corruption.
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The UK’s national debt has gone down this year, whatever the ONS likes to claim
The ONS has announced another pile of economic news this morning, all of which is framed in a way intended to misrepresent what is actually
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What MMT says: a chance for the critics to take a pop
One of the regular stream of commentators who claim that MMT is wrong about everything it says has appeared on the blog. So, I issue
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Could maths help solve the problem with coronavirus testing?
I have no idea if the idea in this video is really deliverable, or not, although Rwanda is apparently using it, as has China. But
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Only the mad and economists
I have heard it said that only the mad and economists think that perpetual growth is possible in a finite world. This graph comes from
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If the SNP is serious about independence it needs to resolve the currency question now
For those who think the SNP is riding high in Scottish popularity I have to say that the feeling is not universally shared. Whilst the
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The UK’s in a total mess. Rewriting the Bank of England’s mandate might be a good place to start if we want to begin putting it right
Some people say that words don’t matter. Others might say that playing around with them might not change much when we’re in a total mess.
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