This post began life as a Twitter thread. It builds on a post made here, yesterday. Some added charts and links have been included. —–
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No deal was always the aim, as was the chaos it will bring
I have for a very long time believed that the government’s real desire is a no deal Brexit, but they felt unable to say it.
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Not so much a Green Industrial Revolution, more a Green Industrial Sop
I suppose I should praise Boris Johnson for announcing what he calls a Green Industrial Revolution’ in the FT this morning, but I find it
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Corruption in the medical-political complex
The British Medical Journal had an editorial last week that pulled no punches. It began by saying: Politicians and governments are suppressing science. They do
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For how long do we have to put up with the apparently cronyist failings of this government?
I suspect many readers of this blog are not readers of the Sunday Times. Nor am I. I do not have a subscription. But it
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The Tories’ deficit deceit
I think this from Simon Wren-Lewis, written yesterday, is very good: [The suggestion is] that Sunak, like Osborne, only pretends to misunderstand the nature of
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Goldman Sachs: suppliers of corruption services
Need I say more than this? I defined the suppliers of corruption services way back in 2007 as: 1. Those governments who supply the secrecy
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The UK government said it could not legislate for Jersey to stop tax abuse and corruption, but apparently it can when it comes to fishing
The UK government always said it could not legislate for Jersey. And so it said it would not intervene to stop tax abuse and corruption.
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The UK’s company regulation system is a licensed mechanism for the supply of corruption services
The Financial Times has reported this morning that: Businesses are being set up in the UK at a record rate, according to the government’s register
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