I am sharing this newsletter from the new project called Counterbalance that is being run by my old friend and colleague JohnChristensen with Nick Shaxson
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I was having a discussion yesterday on the weaknesses in the financial reporting of tax by some of the UK’s largest companies. The idea put
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The last week has been interesting in the world of finance. Greensill Capital collapsed. The provider of what might best be described as unusual forms
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The search for hope is important right now. For those who find it in music I, unusually for me, offer a suggestion of an album
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The Tories’ continued fixation with flying the Union Jack is deeply irritating. I wrote this on Twitter last night: What really sickens me about the
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The FT notes this morning that: The latest UK economic data has been significantly better than economists expected, suggesting households and companies have been more
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I rarely mention issues relating to faith on this blog. There is good reason. Like many, I was long ago alienated from the conventional religious
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As the Guardian notes this morning: The government has scrapped its flagship green homes grant scheme, the centrepiece of Boris Johnson’s promise to “build back
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I noted in a video that I published yesterday that the biggest economic stress from Covid is yet to come. Businesses reopening at the same
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