People assume pensions are “saved money” — a pot with their name on it, safely invested for the future. They aren’t. In this video, I
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I recently made a video explaining modern monetary theory, albeit not for the first time. What we did note when that video was complete was
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The centre ground in British politics is dead, most especially if that so-called centre ground is described as the space occupied by Labour governments over
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As AccountingWEB (of which I was for a decade at the start of the century a contributing editor) noted yesterday: The expected timeline for small
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The S&P 500 stock market index in the USA went above 7,000 for the first time yesterday. It only happened briefly, but it is worth
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An economy that removes agency from communities should not be surprised when people disengage from politics. That is why warnings that Labour risks electoral wipe-out
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The latest poverty data from the Joseph Rowntree Foundation is already being met with a familiar shrug. The BBC appears not to have noticed the
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We are told that artificial intelligence can replace human judgment. It cannot. In this video, I explain why AI does not care, why it cannot
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As The Guardian notes this morning: The country’s most deprived neighbourhoods will have higher crime rates and worse unemployment by the end of the parliament,
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