As the FT reports this morning: Britain’s chemicals sector faces a £2bn hit from post-Brexit red tape, twice the cost of initial industry estimates, as
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The International Financial Reporting Standards Foundation is failing the accountancy profession, the capital markets and generations to come with its sustainability standards
The International Financial Reporting Standards Foundation is consulting on the first two sustainability standards issued by the new International Sustainability Standards Board. The deadline is
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Truss and Sunak need to be careful: their claims are groundless when it comes to debt. The only thing they know about is borrowing.
I watched the Tory leadership debate last night. I almost wish I had not. It was unedifying, and the BBC questioners failed to ask questions
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Freeports are a threat to democracy in the hands of Sunak and Truss
In advance of tonight’s debate between Sunak and Truss a thread on a subject that I think might come up – which is freeports: I
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What our economy requires is a revolution to meet need. Nothing less will do.
The first time I had Covid I thought it was all over after a week. I did this time too. I was wrong on both
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Sunak lives in another world and Truss is on another planet
A break
I have a pile of work to finish today with my Sheffield colleague, Prof Andrew Baker. With luck it will be done by this evening.
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Useless jobs
Peter May wrote this on Progressive Pulse, which is the other blog I direct. I thought it worth sharing: This is a quote from Richard
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How long for Johnson?
We know Johnson is going. What we also know is that he is doing so because his party no longer wants him. They’d even prefer
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