In a rare glimmer of hope yesterday we heard news that Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe might, at long last, be released after a confinement that is largely
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The government and banks failed on Covid loans – but it was government ministers who have refused to deliver a decent company regulator and registrar for the UK who are most to blame – and who should be barred from office forever
As the FT has reported: Tens of thousands of loans were given to potential fraudsters applying to multiple banks under the government-backed Covid bounce back
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Why is Johnson begging that the UK become dependent upon Saudi Arabia, with its appalling human rights record? Is it that Johnson just loves a tyrant? Or is he just stupid when all the money that we need for a green transition is readily available in the UK?
As the FT reports this morning: Boris Johnson is hoping to line up major Saudi investment in British renewable energy on a visit to Riyadh
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The NHS is not safe with the Tories. Not only do they want to undermine it, they’re also succeeding in doing so.
The House of Commons Public Accounts Committee has published a new report this morning that is damning of Tory NHS management. Remember that this is
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Will Russia upset the sectoral balances?
This is one for the geeks, I must admit. As those who understand sectoral balance accounting know, these balances must by definition add up to
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When financial experts are this interesting, it is time to really worry
I can’t really apologise for the length of this quote from Zoe Williams in The Guardian this morning, when it is about me: Into the
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UK diesel and petrol prices are rising, and one of the biggest beneficiaries is HM Treasury, who is so far saying nothing about how it will react to this grossly unfair situation
As the Guardian has noted this morning: Petrol could soar to £2.50 a litre, while diesel could hit £3 and may even be rationed, experts
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China looks to be in new economic trouble – and that has serious implications for us
Just when you thought the economic issues that we face are down to war, the aftermath of Covid and the incompetence response of our government
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The absence of any sort of strategic thinking within the government is why we’re in a mess now
This morning’s newspapers, mixed with some comment from Sunday’s, reveal a continued confusion at the heart of UK economic and political policy that suggests how
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