Amongst the newsletters that I subscribe to is that of the Institute of Economic Affairs, the far-right, near Tufton Street based, mysteriously funded, so-called think
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What if our politicians had a bias to the poor as the message of Christmas demands?
I have written several times already about Pat Lucas, the friend whose funeral I attended this week. I am doing so again. It’s a measure
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We have malnutrition in the UK because our food manufacturers know that nothing is more profitable than hooking people on products destructive to their wellbeing
As The Guardian notes this morning: More than 800,000 patients were admitted to hospital with malnutrition and nutritional deficiencies last year, a threefold increase on
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Oil and goods must move cheaply even as the people of Gaza are bombed: that is the message of Christmas 2023
As the FT notes this morning: The US can lead nations in seeking to keep open the routes for cheap oil and products from China.
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Jersey was once a place of refuge, and not the home of offshore finance
John Christensen, with whom I worked for many years in the Tax Justice Network, and I had the chance to catch up during our visit
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Ending the toxic politics that is breaking the UK, and the world beyond
Might I make a plea to those who usually ignore what I write about Scotland, and suggest what follows is of universal UK appeal, and
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There is no such thing as a fact in economics and accounting
This was posted by French podcaster, Lucas Langlois on Linkedin yesterday: One of the problems we face when dealing with issues around economics and accounting
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We really are not in a good place
The Guardian’s morning business newsletter seemed to have a story to tell in the headlines that it chose today. These were the openers: I, of course,
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The only thing we can be sure of this Christmas is that the so-called libertarians are anything but that
Around the world the lights are going out, and not just for Christmas. In Gaza, Israel is trying to wipe out a people and their
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