The Department for Levelling Up Housing and Communities has released the third wave of the Household Resilience Survey, carried out during April and May 2021.
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Most of those who made catastrophic errors on Covid are still in charge which does at least explain why so much is still going wrong.
The House of Commons and Science and Technology Committee and Health and Social Care Committee have published their Report, Coronavirus: lessons learned to date, examining
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The government still has to decide who to prioritise: is it people, wages and jobs or landlords and an over-inflated financial system?
I wrote what follows below in May 2020. The coronavirus was then developing – but the reality of lockdown, social distancing and much else was
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What about an excess profits tax on the accountants at Deloitte?
As the FT notes this morning: Deloitte’s UK partners will receive an average payout of about £1m after the accounting firm’s profits rebounded from a
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Rationing, anyone?
I was in discussion with one of the very first baby-boomers yesterday. He was born just after the Second World War. What he suggested was
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Is Johnson doing a Baldrick?
I watched some of the press conference led by the prime minister yesterday on the government’s plan for managing Covid this winter. I then tweeted
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Falsehoods cannot win against this pandemic, but that will not stop this government trying them
One of the characteristics of Boris Johnson’s government is its ability to pretend that events will happen when evidence suggests that to be very unlikely.
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If the tax rates on wealth and wealth increases were the same as those on income the UK might collect more than £170 billion of extra tax a year
I wrote the blog post that follows this introduction in April 2020. I was anticipating the fact that there would be a furious debate when
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The rise in Covid cases makes this not just a worrying but also a dangerous time
I wish I could share the optimism of many I saw out and about – and deliberately choosing to socialise in places with poor ventilation
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