Janet Yellen has, according to the FT, called for a global minimum corporation tax rate. I welcome the move. I actually wrote a paper suggesting
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Why does our the government want to facilitate fraud and corruption?
As the Guardian reported over the weekend: A multimillionaire MP who enjoys a Downton Abbey lifestyle funded by historical family links to the slave trade
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What price will the failure of financial capitalism impose upon us?
The Tory plan for compulsory re-education appears to be advancing: https://twitter.com/tomhunt1988/status/1377931192180338692?s=20 That there are people who think we can be educated into believing a flag
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Who is lending to the government?
The Guardian has a long-running series where a reader asks a question and comments are invited, with the best being published. This weekend the question
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Indy myths
Writing for The National
My post analysing the FT’s arguments on the viability of Scottish independence has now been reposted by The National newspaper in Scotland. At the foot
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The FT’s analysis of the economics of an independent Scotland is a catalogue of errors and false assumptions
The FT has published the first part of what it says will be a series on the risk of the UK breaking up. The article
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Why the government bonds owned by the Bank of England are not a debt burden, even when they’re repaid
I received this email very recently, and share it with the author’s permission: Hi Richard, Hope you’re well. After reading some of your articles and
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Fourteen out of fourteen as the government completes its fascist scorecard
On 20 March I wrote this on this blog: In 2003 historian Laurence W. Britt suggested that there were 14 characteristics to fascist regimes. They were: Powerful
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