I watched Channel 4’s Dispatches on who pays for Covid last night, largely in despair. Partly that was at the choice of the hard-right economics
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Little sense and less sensibility: the government’s route to many more Covid deaths
I watched the Prime Minister’s press conference last night. I read the ‘road map’. I read expert reaction in the media and on Twitter. And
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Membership of a community is not worth it if it requires accommodating what is wrong. The truth is worth so much more
This comment was posted on the blog over the weekend in response to my comments on Recovery Bonds: You can add the MMT community to
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ESG investing has to take Fair Tax on board or its a waste of time
The FT has an article making an important argument this morning. As it notes: The huge rise in environmental, social and governance-based investing is funnelling
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The Good Law Project makes the case for civil society
I was pleased by a particular dimension of the decision in the Judicial Review brought by the Good Law Project on the Department for Health’s
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Modern monetary theory: my new summary of how I think it delivers sound economic policy
It has been suggested to me that my support for the issue of savings bonds to the public to fund socially useful investment, with government
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Keir Starmer is becoming a problem
I had an article in the National newspaper in Scotland yesterday, published late yesterday. The opening in paragraphs said: KEIR Starmer is beginning to worry
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Labour has to decide on Brexit – because half of England and Wales cannot go unrepresented forever
The Guardian has reported that: Labour MPs are being asked by the party’s high command not to focus on problems caused by Brexit when asking questions in
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Can Uber afford its tax and wages bills?
As the BBC has just reported: Ride hailing taxi app firm Uber must classify its drivers as workers rather than self-employed, the UK’s Supreme Court
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