This sort of post from a responsible journalist is commonplace this morning: Inflation to a 10 year high, a day ahead of the Bank of
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Taxing the multi-millionaires – Stopping companies being used to reduce the taxes paid by the wealthy
Inequality in the UK is increasing for many reasons. In a series of videos I am exploring one of these reasons, which is the way
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Dominic Raab wants to strip us of our human rights to protect the rich from our unwarranted attacks
As the Guardian noted today: Dominic Raab is to outline a sweeping overhaul of human rights law that he claims will counter “wokery and political
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I worry about how politics might come out on the other side of omicron. Can democracy survive the idiots that we have in the Commons?
I have already noted this morning that exceptionally serious scientists and the UK’s chief medical officers all agree that we face the risk of the
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Reasonable forecasts suggest that we are facing a health crisis of a scale no-one in the UK has ever previously experienced
The UK’s chief medical officers increased their assessment of the threat from Covid to level five yesterday. What that means is that they think that
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Corporate Accountability Network Audit Briefing – what is a public interest entity?
As I have noted previously on this blog, the Corporate Accountability Network, which I direct, is publishing a series of Audit Briefings that discuss the
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Taxing multi-millionaires – equalising capital gains tax and income tax rates
In a series of videos I am looking at practical ways in which we can tackle the problems created by inequality in the UK, particularly
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We are so very, very far from levelling up when this Tory government has done its level best to make the UK a more unequal place
The New Economics Foundation has a new report out this morning on the impact of the Covid crisis on income and wealth using modelling originally
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The Covid response suggests that Tory MPs now think that delivering death in the community is what politics is all about
We have, according to Boris Johnson, a national emergency. For once, I will not disagree with him. Omicron is creating a crisis with regard to
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