Boris Johnson announced sanctions against Russia yesterday in response to its invasion of Ukraine that made him and his government looked like a laughingstock. Five
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The Tories have taken us to a place where those who cannot afford Covid healthcare are simply abandoned to their fate
Boris Johnson’s press conference concerning his Covid plan was a staggering debacle yesterday. First, there is as such no plan. All that is actually happening
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The government is seeking to undermine the Electoral Commission – and so fair elections in the UK – according to the Electoral Commission
This extraordinary mail has been sent by all but one the Electoral Commissioners to the government today (I added the highlight in the main body
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The UK has been corrupted and accountants, lawyers and bankers are to blame
Andrew Rawnsley wrote this in The Observer yesterday: Once upon a time, Britons would have been astonished and appalled to find scandal simultaneously bespoiling their
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Credit Suisse: what we need to know is whether there are problems now so that the corruption threat we face today can be eliminated
The Guardian and other newspapers around the world are going to town this m morning on the fact that they have another leak from banks
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We need a war on the corruption that lets world leaders think they can claim assets illicitly
I have just Tweeted this thread: There is talk of war this morning. A thread…. Putin clearly agreed to take no action against Ukraine during
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Requiring teachers to present a view in classes that our government is the benign deliverer of optimal outcomes for society is anything but neutral, but that is what the government is demanding that teachers do
The government issued this statement yesterday: New guidance to support teachers in tackling sensitive issues in the classroom in a politically impartial way is being
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Is the government conspiring to create inflation?
In my regular column for The National in Scotland, published yesterday, I put forward a hypothesis about the government’s attitude towards inflation. Much of the argument
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Companies House is currently a supplier of licensed identities available for the purposes of fraud and corruption
Prof Prem Sikka, my old tax justice friend who now sits in the House of Lords as a Labour peer, has been asking a series
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