I am a big fan of the work of the Good Law Project, which has been doing an amazing job in holding the government to
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Great English Railways is another rail disaster in the making
Few ideas are as strangled at birth quite as effectively as the government’s planned Great British Railway has been. Wales and Scotland run their own
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There is one required plan for the Red Wall. It’s the one that delivers well paid jobs. Nothing less will do.
I have often been baffled by the claim that the so-called ‘Red Wall seats’ in the north of England are so very different from the
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The long-Covid effect on the economy has hardly begun, and is still being ignored. It’s time we talked about it
The i newspaper has reported this morning that there are at least three new mutant strains of Covid 19 that may escape vaccines. There are
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Institutional racism survives at the Home Office
The Guardian has a shocking report in its pages today. It notes: The Home Office has failed to compensate victims of the Windrush scandal quickly
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Suing auditors will not be enough to change the fundamental failings in corporate accounts
This notice was published via the Stock Exchange yesterday: The summary of that is that a company is to provide backing for a legal claim
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HM Revenue & Customs is not fit for purpose
This comes from my paper on a future tax system for Scotland, but since it explains why HM Revenue & Customs does not provide a
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Bitcoin is just a gamble. That’s it. There is nothing more to it.
I have, for a long time, been deeply cynical about Bitcoin. There are good reasons to be so. The first is the so-called production process. Not
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A boom? Really? You have to be wildly optimistic to think it likely
I wasn’t surprised by this report on the BBC website: Consumers are likely to play safe as the UK emerges from lockdown rather than spend
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