What is the point of the Tories now? And why are they still in power? The party of business could not give a damn about
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The rise in Covid cases makes this not just a worrying but also a dangerous time
I wish I could share the optimism of many I saw out and about – and deliberately choosing to socialise in places with poor ventilation
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What is a tax haven?
When I first began working on tax havens in the early years of this century it quickly became very clear that there was no precise
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Inflation, what it is and why there’s no reason that we require interest rate increases to tackle it right now
I have just posted this Twitter thread tackling the issue of inflation… People are really worried about inflation. The right-wing media is fuelling that concern
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The QuEST for a Green New Deal in the Guardian
My Green New Deal and Finance for the Future colleague Colin Hines has this letter in the Guardian: Andy Beckett is right to find some
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Thank you to 5,000 subscribers
Jack Lennon, who does the engineering on all my videos these days, pointed out recently that we now have 5,000 subscribers to this channel. The
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Sunak’s approach to NHS funding is completely wrong because it harms wellbeing
I posted this Twitter thread last night: A slightly blown-up version of the Telegraph story to which I refer looks like this: The nub of
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The environment is now the number two issue of public concern
The Ipsos MORI Issues Index for August 2021 shows public concern about the environment has jumped sixteen percentage points over last month’s Index. This could,
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Four questions to ask of any economic policy, following in the tradition of Adam Smith
One of the questions within economics is on whose behalf should it be assumed that a person acts, and with what motivation? The answer was
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