2021 June 02

The government really does not care about children

Posted on June 2 2021

As the TES has reported: The education recovery commissioner, Sir Kevan Collins has written to the prime minister Boris Johnson to offer his resignation this
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UK government borrowing in 2020/21 was £19 billion, at most. So where was the economic crisis that prevented lockdown and caused so many deaths? Nowhere to be seen, of course. It was all just dogma.

Posted on June 2 2021

I was asked yesterday how much of the government deficit in the last financial year was funded by government borrowing, and how much by quantitative
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US democracy is at risk – and the UK is following in its path

Posted on June 2 2021

I am sharing the following statement of concern issued in the US by more than 100 academics who are worried about the state of US
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The EU did not rise to the challenge of country-by-country reporting

Posted on June 2 2021

I wrote yesterday about the negotiation that was scheduled on country-by-country reporting in the EU which, it was hoped would bring a favourable outcome by
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How long will it be before reversing Brexit becomes an acceptable topic for political debate?

Posted on June 2 2021

This is the Telegraph’s business page today: This is the start of the story on Tim Martin, the boss of Wetherspoons: Tim Martin was a
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My vision for the future of auditing and accounting

Posted on June 2 2021

I have a pretty radical vision for the future of audit, which is intimately related to accounting and is focussed on meeting users’ needs. In
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