Having spent rather too much of the night in pain with an abscess under a tooth, for which my dentist prescribed an antibiotic yesterday that
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I watched this programme on BBC2 last night: For those with an hour to spare and the ability to withstand the frustration of watching it
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Further to my blog post yesterday, quoting Lord Prem Sikka, who I have worked with for twenty years on tax justice issues, I note this
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According to the Office for National Statistics release on the December 2021 government finances, published yesterday, this happened: That’s an extraordinary increase in interest payments
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Lord Agnew resigned yesterday suggesting in the process that government losses to fraud were at least £29 billion a year. I am afraid I have
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Share prices are tumbling this week. And so they should. This is the Shiller price ratio for the S&P 500 in the US but the
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I have already this morning noted the resignation of government minister Lord Agnew in frustration at his own failure to get government departments to take
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Lord Agnew quit as the government minister responsible for tackling fraud, with a brief crossing the Treasury and Cabinet Office, yesterday. He had given no
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Political speculation abounds on whether Johnson can survive. It is apparent that the consensus is that he cannot. But let me offer a word of
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