Peter May, who pretty much runs the Progressive Pulse website these days, even though I am its director, wrote a really important blog on Friday.
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The government can create all the money that we need to prevent poverty, misery, despair and recession in this country, but is choosing not to do so. Why?
I wrote this on Twitter last night: It would cost around £50 billion to save people from the hunger, the cold, the poverty and the
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The International Financial Reporting Standards Foundation is failing society with its proposals on accounting for climate change
I noted that the International Financial Reporting Standards Foundation had issued, through its International Sustainability Standards Board, two new standards on accounting for environmental change
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What motivates the Tories to impose hardship, by choice?
I tweeted these two paragraphs last night: I watched the Irish film, Arracht tonight. It is bleak, telling how English Tory landlords imposed starvation on
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Government does not come worse than this
This column by me was in The Sheffield Star yesterday: There are some dates that go down in economic history. April 1 this year might
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Love and Coats
Both my sons are home this weekend, having travelled by train from their respective universities yesterday. By coincidence, I happened yesterday to read a short
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The accounting profession confirms that it is in denial on climate change
My timing in issuing my new draft Financial Reporting Standard on Accounting for Environmental Change was exquisite, and quite by chance. Yesterday the International Financial
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Getting proper accounting for environmental change is going to be a long slow burn, which is not what the planet can afford
My new draft Financial Reporting Standard on Accounting for Environmental Change got into AccountingWEB yesterday: I fear this one is going to be a long,
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Why is it that those who live off financial speculation are taxed so much less in the UK than those who work for a living?
My old friend and long term colleague in tax justice and accounting reform campaigning, Prem Sikka, who now sits in the House of Lords, said
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