The ONS published a lot of pay data this morning. The chart I found most interesting was this one: Median pay growth has exceeded 5%
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Fascism reaches the UK’s courts
The Guardian has reported this morning that: An environmental activist has been jailed for eight weeks after disobeying a judge’s instruction not to mention the
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Things might, and can, only get worse
This chart is from the New Statesman: Let me be honest. I really do not think that is a likely election result. I suspect the
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Sweeping corruption out of politics
I posted this short thread on Twitter this morning: I have never been enamoured by corruption. My dislike of everything to do with it motivated
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If we want a decent society ministers have to take their duties to regulate, to tax and to stamp out criminal abuse seriously. Ours treat all three as unnecessary.
There was an article in the Sunday Times yesterday on the creation of what are being called ‘burner companies’. The links are in this Tweet
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It really is time that the government got serious about fraud
My friend Prem (Lord) Sikka has drawn my attention to this question he asked in the House of Lords: This is the answer he was
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Our government is at economic war with us
I posted this thread on Twitter this morning: There are warnings in many newspapers this morning that suggest Sunak and Hunt have agreed tax rises
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We cannot thrive in a society led by Tories
In praise of rules I am a chartered accountant. Perhaps it is unsurprising that I like rules. On the basis of the simple rules of
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Will he run?
There is much talk of Johnson arriving back in the UK this morning to begin his campaign to be prime minister again by next Friday.
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