This comment was posted on the blog this morning in response to my article on Tory proposals to crack down on extremism: It’s always about
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If Braverman wants to brand me as an extremist, I plead guilty
I posted this as a Twitter thread this morning: The Government has apparently drawn up plans to broaden the definition of extremism to include anyone
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The challenge from AI is not to our intelligence: it is instead to our unique ability to think
I feel I should say something about artificial intelligence. To some degree I am hindered when contemplating doing so by the fact that I am
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What are the biggest threats to an incoming Labour government?
What are the biggest threats to an incoming Labour government? This is not an idle question. I sincerely hope that Labour is already asking the
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How can we restore confidence in government?
One of the questions in a rather dull edition of Question Time last night was, “How can we have confidence in the running of our
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Taxing Wealth Report 2024: reintroducing close company rules for income and corporation tax could raise at least £3 billion of tax a year
I have this morning published the next in my series of proposals that will make up the Taxing Wealth Report 2024. In this latest note, I
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More meaningful accounts are to return to the public record
As AccountingWEB (of which I was an editor for a number of years) has reported this week: Plans for tighter rules over how companies report
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The Bank of England is driving us into recession – and misery
I just posted this as a Twitter thread (I refuse to call it X): The Bank of England has kept interest rates on hold at
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Did people die from Covid because of the power of populist politics?
In the context of the Covid inquiry, I have had my attention drawn to a paper in the British Medical Journal entitled ‘How covid-19 spreads:
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