As the Guardian has reported: Gordon Brown has called for emergency measures to support businesses in the budget after new research from the London School of
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Remembering 100,000, and why some of them died
On 3 February 2020 Boris Johnson said this in his triumphalist post-Brexit speech at Lancaster House: Trade used to grow at roughly double global GDP
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How to use local and hypothecated bond issues to fund the recovery
I made a suggestion in a video yesterday that it is now essential to the restoration of balance within the UK economy that the accumulating
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The missing information on unemployment is the 1.3 million people who have upped sticks and left the country
As the Guardian notes this morning: The UK’s unemployment rate rose to 5% in the three months to November — up from 4.9%, and the
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Cummings thought that letting the vulnerable die was the way to beat Covid 19, and that still seems to be the policy
As the FT reports this morning: The … React-1 study led by Imperial College London concluded that prevalence of the [Covid] virus was “very high
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There is a post-Covid society to shape, and it is not like the one that existed before we went into this
As the FT notes this morning: US companies are sitting on trillions of dollars in cash that they borrowed to survive the coronavirus shock of
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Looking forward to recovery may be a touch too optimistic as yet
According to the Guardian: Boris Johnson has told business leaders that efficient delivery of the coronavirus vaccine is Britain’s best economic recovery tool as he
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We totter on the brink of extremism at present: there are no such things as ‘less valuable’ lives
It struck me over the weekend just how brutal our society is becoming. Take this tweet, and the video to which it refers, as an
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Were the tax cuts to big business and the well off worth the deaths we are now seeing from coronavirus?
I posted this thread on Twitter this morning: The crisis in the NHS is overwhelming this week. It has reminded me of conversations I had
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