There is a headline in the Guardian this morning that says: And why not, you might reasonably ask? Next to that headline at the time
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It is possible to have a flat tax, or to have democracy, but not both
According to the Guardian, Kemi Badenoch said yesterday that a flat tax rate is an “attractive idea”. A flat tax is a far-right obsession on
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Does the NHS need advice from bankers?
Rachel Reeves must think the only job a government has is to balance its books. There can be no other explanation for the insanity of
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The next crash could be much bigger than the last two
As the FT has noted: The UK statistics agency defines properties costing more than five years of income as “unaffordable”. The affordability ratio in England
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How long before QE is required to save the wealthy from the folly of their greed?
As the FT notes this morning: Investors’ “relentless” appetite for juicy returns has triggered the biggest boom on Wall Street in complex financial products since
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Who knows whether our drinking water is safe?
As the Guardian reported on Saturday: The safety of tap water in the UK could be at risk because water companies are unable to use
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Trump’s planning to crash the global economy
Trump is planning trade wars and sanctions that are bound to crash the world economy. But what he knows is that the resulting bailout will
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Democracy is dying, and our hopes with it. And yes, I am angry about that
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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