The Office for Budget Responsibility published this commentary this week: This needs to be out in the context of its borrowing forecasts made last October:
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If we want to protect people in this country from Covid then we have to also protect the world. It really is that simple.
This letter was sent to the Prime Minister by more than 200 academics, scientists and specialists yesterday. I think it worth reproducing in full (exporting
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The national insurance increase planned for April cannot be justified
Prof Danny Blanchflower and I had a brief Twitter exchange last night on the subject of cancelling the planned national insurance increase, due in April,
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The Tory’s approach to fraud is undermining the UK
My article in The National yesterday was tweeted by them using this, slightly worrying, image: As I concluded: Once fraud is accepted as normal in
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Operation big dog
Sometimes a poet, and their friends, has to say something in a way others can’t. This is from a poet whose work I have long
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The Tory proposal to sanction the unemployed reveals their contempt for those who must work for a living, who they treat as cogs in a machine
As The Guardian notes this morning: Unemployed workers will be forced to take up a job in any sector or face swift financial sanctions under
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We need to be rid of the Tories for good now that they are rotten to their very core.
Having spent rather too much of the night in pain with an abscess under a tooth, for which my dentist prescribed an antibiotic yesterday that
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Why the rich got richer – an inadequate explanation from the BBC
I watched this programme on BBC2 last night: For those with an hour to spare and the ability to withstand the frustration of watching it
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The government is unable to say why it did not put basic checks to tackle Covid fraud in place
Further to my blog post yesterday, quoting Lord Prem Sikka, who I have worked with for twenty years on tax justice issues, I note this
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