I have just posted this thread on Twitter: Tories are arguing that wages must not rise as strongly as prices or we will get an
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Oh to be a big corporation in 2022
These are a selection of Guardian stories from this morning: What we have are big corporates, operating either as oligopolies or as effective monopolies behind
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Starmer’s mess
There are occasions when politicians baffle me. I will exclude Tories from that comment: their very existence is hard to explain. I refer instead to
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Stagffluence is the problem that we face
I am posting here the introduction from a piece by two colleagues at the University of Sheffield, Professors Rowland Atkinson and Andrew Baker. Andrew is
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US banks are learning a lesson in failing to keep appropriate records: it’s a shame our dodgy government is not being required to do so as well
As the FT notes in an email this morning: As Brooke Masters writes in this week’s column, governments and companies have long known they must capture important communications for
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We live in a world of scarce resources that we must preserve. Could someone tell Truss, Sunak and Starmer?
The EU agreed to ration gas yesterday. In the UK regulators are urging us to be careful with water because it is now in very
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The Tories really do think they have been atrocious in government
The Tories really do think they have been atrocious in government. They are actually saying so now: Jeez. In the first 30 minutes of tonight’s
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Tax and modern monetary theory: my talk at the MMT Summer Seminar
If only the Green New Deal Group had been listened to in 2008 a lot of the current cost-of-living crisis need not have happened
This morning the Business and Energy Select Committee has issued a report staying: In 2008 the Green New Deal Group, of which I am a
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