As Larry Elliott has noted in the Guardian this morning, the September rent payment day (businesses usually pay their rent quarterly) might be particularly stressful
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I spent yesterday feeling very angry. I’ve known, and written about, Johnson’s duplicity, lying and consequential corruption of the standards of government before now, but
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Videos are back, after a couple of days of production bugs. This one is on algorithms. You know, the things that deliver entirely reliable forecasts
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Boris Johnson has now proved himself capable of U-turning on his own legislative decisions, passed only months ago. In that case it has to be
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Time was when I spent much of my time looking at shady finance in developing countries. Now I do so closer to home. But that
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I should not be surprised by anything Boris Johnson does. But I am. Trumplike, it seems he has total disregard. This contempt for the commitments
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Some of my tweets from this morning, best read from the bottom up:  

I posted a series of comments on Twitter this morning with a common theme, as seems to be my habit these days. On this occasion
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I did not know David Graeber. We knew of each other and had exchanged once or twice, but I make no more claim that that.
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