I have reached a point where I need to draw a halt to having to comment on all the queries that have been raised here
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Facing the uncertain future for small business
I have an article out on AccountingWEB this morning on what small businesses should be thinking about once they have addressed their immediate cash flow
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If you want to understand why shutting down makes sense
As I have already noted this morning, what we and so many other countries are doing at present is unprecedented. We are not facing a
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When we’ve beaten coronavirus we’ll need to deliver the Green New Deal – and both will depend on quantitative easing
My friend and Green New Deal colleague Colin Hines has a letter in the Guardian this morning: Larry Elliott correctly identifies the wartime scale of
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The time for universal basic services has arrived
There has been a lot of discussion of universal basic incomes in the context of the current crisis, but very little of an alternative idea,
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Unless the government gets cash to people very, very soon there is going to be rioting
I am beginning to become profoundly worried by the utter incompetence of the UK government. No one knows how many people have lost their jobs
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Tax and coronavirus: a tax justice perspective
Not everyone here is going to agree with everything said in this blog from Nick Shaxson at the Tax Justice Network, but Nick and John
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The Coronavirus Bill amendment for the self-employed will not become law
According to Daniel Barnett, who is an employment lawyer: The House of Commons Public Bill Committee has proposed an amendment to the Coronavirus Bill, entitled Statutory Self-Employment
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At long last the government can borrow straight from the Bank of England – as modern monetary theory has always suggested it should
In today’s FT Alphaville was this pure gem: Hidden in last Thursday’s announcement from the Bank of England that it intends to buy another £200bn-worth of mostly
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