I noticed this in an FT email this morning: There is, apparently, ‘no money’, The French government fell this week because it could not find
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Fraud costs how much?
The government’s own data on fraud suggests it loses £58.8 billion a year, but that’s bound to be understated as there are no systems to
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Trump and Badenoch are opposing diversity – and big business is beginning to side with them
As the FT reports this morning: US companies are accelerating their retreat from diversity and inclusion initiatives amid an all-out assault from conservatives emboldened by
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If ministers don’t believe in government, it can’t work
For decades we have suffered ministers who get elected to advance their own careers but not to deliver good government, in which they have no
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Are the far-right now openly seeking the end of democracy?
As the Guardian has reported this afternoon: South Korean president Yoon Suk Yeol declared an “emergency martial law” on Tuesday, accusing the country’s opposition of controlling the
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Starmer and Reeves can ignore accounting – but only if they want to fail
I thought a Tweet from Robert Peston was especially relevant this morning, so much so that it is almost going to feature as a guest
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Will Labour rise to the challenge from Musk?
As Yahoo has reported: Elon Musk is reportedly planning to make a $100 million donation to Reform UK as a “fuck you” to Keir Starmer.
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The tax justice movement really does need to get its demands right
As the Guardian reported yesterday: The UK’s offshore financial centres must fall in behind plans to stop “dirty money” by publishing registers of corporate ownership,
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In the US the Presidency is anything but free
I liked these words by David Smith about Trump’s closing comments in his last election rally, in the Guardian today: There might be something achingly
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