I like this. Not everyone will. That’s why I am sharing it. And if you get the ad for the Friends of the Earth bee
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This is a moment to reflect
I wondered whether I could avoid commenting on the death of Prince Philip here. On reflection, I decided I could not. At a personal level
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Why is the UK being so quiet about the Biden tax plan from which it might gain £13.5 billion?
I share this from Tax Justice UK, of whose advisory board I am a member: New analysis suggests that the UK would raise an extra
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The fundamental pension contract is failing
People think that pensions are all about saving, financial speculation, and living off your money in old age. The trouble is that this model of
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Elsewhere, yesterday
A friend mailed me this morning and asked what is going on in the FT. He’d noticed this in FT AlphavilleFT Alphaville: Elsewhere on Friday:
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What to say about Greensill?
The ‘did Sunak help Greensill at Cameron’s request?’ or not, saga seems to be keeping some parts of the news industry happy this morning. Fir
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The last thing carbon needs is creative accounting
The FT reports this morning that: A major stumble by UN climate adviser Mark Carney over the carbon accounting methods used by Brookfield Asset Management,
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Scotland needs to generate well over 100% renewable power compared to current consumption
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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