We have lived through a weekend where, I think to many people’s surprise, Kiev did not fall. Instead, Ukrainian resistance to the Russian invasion appears
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BP should be putting its cards more clearly face up on the table: what’s really happening on Rosneft is not clear
Much fuss was made yesterday about BP (or bp as it now prefers to call itself after what was, presumably, a very expensive rebranding exercise)
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If we are to save democracy we have a fight on our hands
How do we fix the economy?
Everything has changed. We are now living in a wartime economy and the government needs to change almost all its economic policies to suit that new situation.
As the FT has noted this morning: UK consumer confidence plunged in February and many measures of spending remained below pre-pandemic levels as surging living
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No accounting for taste: my podcast with AccountingWEB
Pecunia Non Olet: The Londongrad Laundromat Reprieved
I post this article by John Warren, who is a regular commentator on his blog, with permission of John and the editor of Bella Caledonia,
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£2.8 billion of benefit credits available to pensioners are not claimed a year
The Department for Work and Pensions has just published this data: What this suggests is that significant sums that could relieve pensioner poverty are not
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