As the FT has noted: The vast majority of Grant Thornton’s UK employees want to spend less than half of the working week in the
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What will happen in July?
This new chart from The London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, via the Guardian, makes clear that the government’s own Covid advisers think another
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The Covid crisis is very far from over
I watched much of the PM’s press conference on Covid passports, or not, and mass testing, or not, yesterday. The uncertainty within that sentence is
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The injustice of the rentier economy is real and ongoing
I do not apologise for this lengthy quote from Nils Pratley in the Guardian as it is key to my argument that follows. Talking of
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Chris Whitty is asking that we accept Covid deaths like we do those from flu when flu deaths are largely linked to poverty
I share this Tweet, which is an angry reaction from someone well known to me to Chris Whitty’s suggestion that we should just get on
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The real economy’s dependence on QE is bigger than most think right now
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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The Covid economic crisis is far from over
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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Business is going to need all the help it can get to reopen
Deep down inside me there is the chartered accountant I have been for almost 40 years now. And as an accountant I know that the
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The economic shocks of Covid are not over yet
The FT has noted this morning that: Holders of UK government bonds are suffering the worst quarter in at least two decades as Britain’s economic
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