According to the Guardian: Democracy is at risk unless the government and regulators take urgent action to combat a growing crisis of data manipulation, disinformation
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Even the Tories are cancelling privatisation contracts
From the FT today: The UK is set to tear up private companies’ contracts to run probation services and embark on a comprehensive rethink of
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The state of UK savings
The Treasury Committee has published a new report on savings, pensions and related issues. There is much to take issue with in it at a theoretical level.
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May’s can has been crushed
For two years Theresa May has sought to kick the Brexit can down the road, hoping rather than expecting that something might come up that
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Answering the question ‘How do unearned benefits pay for themselves?’
Someone with some political and economic experience sent me a note after they had read my blog on answering the question ‘How are you going
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The shocking possibility that US children might deserve healthcare and education
The July Tax Justice Network Taxcast
In the July 2018 Tax Justice Network Taxcast: We look at a proposal for a firewall to protect EU citizens from the Big Four accountancy
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The Treasury admit that tax does not fund government spending – as modern monetary theory suggests
Peter May has a fascinating post on the Progressive Pulse blog. As he notes: It was almost a year ago that I originally wrote to my
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Project Fear is now Project Fact and still we stumble onwards to chaos
I would love to think each day in the unfolding Brexit disaster will be the worst. But I know that is not true. After all,
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