I posted this thread on Twitter this morning: This year the government will give the UK’s banks £45 billion they have done nothing to earn.
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Sunak’s abandonment of his climate commitments is political failure on an epic scale
As The Guardian notes this morning: The government is drawing up plans to drop the UK’s flagship £11.6bn climate and nature funding pledge, the Guardian can
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The debt we’re in
I received this by email from investment advisors Hargreaves Lansdown yesterday: Looming debt crisis will lay waste to our finances One in four of us
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The racists are winning in the US. We urgently need to protect our freedoms
I noticed this in an email from the New York Times this morning: In a 6-3 decision, the Supreme Court rejected race-conscious affirmative action at
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Profits are driving inflation. When will politicians and the Bank of England admit it?
As the IMF has just reported: Rising corporate profits account for almost half the increase in Europe’s inflation over the past two years as companies
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Is resilience just another neoliberal trope?
There is no justification for releasing hell on earth for millions
Martin Wolf wrote an article for the FT that began by saying: At this stage in the inflationary process, a central bank needs to show
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The ethical question no neoliberal wants to answer
I tweeted this two-part Twitter thread earlier this afternoon. I am not sure I have a lot to add here: Isn’t that just about the
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Should the government use fear and the threat of recession to force down pay rises?
The government has resorted this week to using fear and the threat of recession as tools in its war against wage increases, which they say
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