The first of my regular columns in The National in Scotland is out. In it I argue: Scotland needs to generate well over 100% renewable
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Why are the Tories so worried?
You’d think that a government with a big majority and high on the polls would have little to worry about, and yet the Tories are
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The heavy price of Johnson’s English nationalism
The world has, at last, noticed that not all is well in Northern Ireland. Loyalist rioting has gone on for six nights now. There is
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Biden’s tax plan is about tackling the class warfare of the US elite
I am being asked by journalists to discuss this: That, of course, is the Biden tax plan, which is radically different from anything we have
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Who is going to create the politics that understands the new normal?Â
As the FT has noted: The vast majority of Grant Thornton’s UK employees want to spend less than half of the working week in the
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Making Tax Work
A significant part of my work over the last year that has not previously featured on this blog is featured in the latest newsletter of
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UK companies are not taking climate change seriously
It probably comes as no surprise to anyone that the FT has reported this morning that UK companies are failing to take their climate change
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What will happen in July?
This new chart from The London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, via the Guardian, makes clear that the government’s own Covid advisers think another
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The Covid crisis is very far from over
I watched much of the PM’s press conference on Covid passports, or not, and mass testing, or not, yesterday. The uncertainty within that sentence is
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