Having spent rather too much of the night in pain with an abscess under a tooth, for which my dentist prescribed an antibiotic yesterday that
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The government is unable to say why it did not put basic checks to tackle Covid fraud in place
Further to my blog post yesterday, quoting Lord Prem Sikka, who I have worked with for twenty years on tax justice issues, I note this
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Total government losses to error and fraud are not £29bn as Lord Agnew suggested – they are much bigger than that, and they turn a deliberate blind eye to it
Lord Agnew resigned yesterday suggesting in the process that government losses to fraud were at least £29 billion a year. I am afraid I have
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The government has to stop subsidising the dead money of the wealthy and put money to life transforming lives instead
A thread, posted on Twitter this morning, partly in response to all that Jack Monroe has said this week, and partly in response to suggestions
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The UN Declaration of Human Rights – where are we now?
In response to one of yesterday’s blog posts, I was reflecting on anti-fascist statements, which led me to the UN Declaration of Human Rights, perhaps
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I sincerely hope BlackRock is woke. The world’s largest fund manager had better be aware of issues relating to racial, gender, social and other injustices or its failing us all
The FT notes this morning that: Investors that focus on the interests of wider society rather than pure profits are not “woke”, BlackRock chief executive
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For the greater good, Johnson has to go now
So, the Prime Minister’s Private Secretary invites 100 people on the Prime Minister’s behalf to a party in Downing Street in May 2020 when anything
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Normalcy might be the enemy within that lets the unthinkable happen
I should probably apologise for keeping writing about states of confusion, but this blog is (if it is anything) a stream of consciousness, and what
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Neoliberal thinking is now MAD because it is a route to mutually assured destruction
The FT has reported today that: Policies to tackle climate change are likely to keep energy prices higher for longer and may force the European
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