Putin has his troops on what most countries think to be Ukrainian soil this morning. Talk of sanctions is in the air. The fear as
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The government is seeking to undermine the Electoral Commission – and so fair elections in the UK – according to the Electoral Commission
This extraordinary mail has been sent by all but one the Electoral Commissioners to the government today (I added the highlight in the main body
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Inflation is not here to stay
As the Guardian notes this morning: One in five nearly-new cars are now selling at more than their brand-new equivalents, as disruption to supply chains
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The major oil companies are planning $38 billion of share buybacks. A tax of the same sum on them might be required in that case.
As the FT notes this morning: The seven supermajors — including BP, Shell, ExxonMobil and Chevron — are poised to return $38bn to shareholders through
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The UK has been corrupted and accountants, lawyers and bankers are to blame
Andrew Rawnsley wrote this in The Observer yesterday: Once upon a time, Britons would have been astonished and appalled to find scandal simultaneously bespoiling their
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Credit Suisse: what we need to know is whether there are problems now so that the corruption threat we face today can be eliminated
The Guardian and other newspapers around the world are going to town this m morning on the fact that they have another leak from banks
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We need a war on the corruption that lets world leaders think they can claim assets illicitly
I have just Tweeted this thread: There is talk of war this morning. A thread…. Putin clearly agreed to take no action against Ukraine during
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Requiring teachers to present a view in classes that our government is the benign deliverer of optimal outcomes for society is anything but neutral, but that is what the government is demanding that teachers do
The government issued this statement yesterday: New guidance to support teachers in tackling sensitive issues in the classroom in a politically impartial way is being
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Is the government conspiring to create inflation?
In my regular column for The National in Scotland, published yesterday, I put forward a hypothesis about the government’s attitude towards inflation. Much of the argument
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