This is very good, and very worthwhile remembering when dealing with right-wing trolls, who use definitions as methods of differentiation when as Popper points out
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We should seek to ensure that all can live with freedom from fear
I began writing this a few weeks ago, when I awoke with my head brimful of ideas in the middle of the night and writing
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We need to bail out the planet
I like this. Not everyone will. That’s why I am sharing it. And if you get the ad for the Friends of the Earth bee
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This is a moment to reflect
I wondered whether I could avoid commenting on the death of Prince Philip here. On reflection, I decided I could not. At a personal level
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Why is the UK being so quiet about the Biden tax plan from which it might gain £13.5 billion?
I share this from Tax Justice UK, of whose advisory board I am a member: New analysis suggests that the UK would raise an extra
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The fundamental pension contract is failing
People think that pensions are all about saving, financial speculation, and living off your money in old age. The trouble is that this model of
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Elsewhere, yesterday
A friend mailed me this morning and asked what is going on in the FT. He’d noticed this in FT AlphavilleFT Alphaville: Elsewhere on Friday:
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What to say about Greensill?
The ‘did Sunak help Greensill at Cameron’s request?’ or not, saga seems to be keeping some parts of the news industry happy this morning. Fir
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The last thing carbon needs is creative accounting
The FT reports this morning that: A major stumble by UN climate adviser Mark Carney over the carbon accounting methods used by Brookfield Asset Management,
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