As I have noted this morning, the Bank of England is now reporting that it might make a loss of £150 billion on the disposal
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The Bank of England wants to make a loss of £150 billion so that governments will be forced to cut spending. That is the real banking scandal of our time.
A number of people have asked me to comment on this article in the FT from a few days ago: To do so I have
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The economics of walking about in Scotland
This is the conclusion to my article in The National yesterday: There are few countries in the world with better natural resources capable of delivering
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Ingordigious
I very much liked this tweet by lexicographer Susie Dent: Word of the day is ‘ingordigious’ (17th century): motivated primarily by greed. — Susie Dent
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Most people in the UK think the theat from climate change is really serious. So why are politicians pandering to the minority who do not?
This is from IPSOS Mori today: Seventy-seven per cent of people in this country think climate change is a serious threat. At the same time,
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Why care about politics?
The video embedded in this tweet is very good: I don't know or care if I've already shared this on here. It's OUTSTANDING. pic.twitter.com/Iv9Q20pqJx —
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What NGO tax justice campaigners could be doing right now
As readers of this blog will have noted, I was scathing of the Tax Justice Network’s new State of Tax Justice report a couple of
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We need a state-owned bank. That is what a courageous state would create right now.
I posted this thread on Twitter this morning: I cannot be alone in being bored by hearing and seeing Nigel Farage in the media talking
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The tax system is riddled with leaks that mostly benefit the rich. They need to be closed.
As the Guardian reports this morning: I entirely agree with the committee. A review of these allowances and reliefs is long overdue. Many are open
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