The FT has noted the steadily falling price of oil in an article published this morning: There are three issues in play. The first is
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Ultra-processed foods are up with climate change as a threat to well-being
The FT has reported this morning that: The UK should increase tax on tobacco, alcohol and “unhealthy food companies” to raise £10bn a year by
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Why are the far-right so popular?
In this morning’s video I note that the far-right won an election in Germany last weekend, following on from successes elsewhere. Why is it so
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It’s game over for Thames Water now: it is only Labour prevarication that might save it for a while
As the Guardian reports this morning: Thames Water has said it will be unable to recover from its funding crisis if it is blocked from
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Labour’s ducking water nationalisation
As regular readers of this blog will know, I have taken some interest in the activities of the English water companies in recent years. I
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Let’s talk about capital
There has been a lot of debate on this blog recently about the way in which I use the word capital. I have used it
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Welcome to the Labour pension con-trick, coming your way at considerable increased cost to your pocket, very soon
I was on LBC this morning talking about pensions in the light of a Rachel Reeves media onslaught on the subject scheduled for this morning.
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Is growth that is dependent on trashing the planet worth having?
Yesterday’s IT outage was serious and debilitating. It clearly had an effect on some readers of this blog because traffic was well down early in
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Will Labour restore the right to protest?
I posted this on Twitter yesterday: Protestors seeking to draw attention to the desperate plight of our planet have been sent to prison for four
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