As Open Democracy has revealed: The Labour Party’s largest-ever donation came from a Cayman Islands-registered hedge fund with shares worth hundreds of millions of pounds
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Oil prices are falling: the old order might be broken
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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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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Unless Labour listens and learns we are in big trouble
There is much discussion of the causes of what is being called ‘far-right’ rioting in the UK this morning. No one is, unfortunately, calling it
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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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Saving for intergenerational solidarity
My Green New Deal and Finance for the Future colleague, Colin Hines, had this letter in The Guardian this morning: Nesrine Malik is right that
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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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Shouldn’t we be celebrating recent record national savings?
There is new national debt data out today. This was my reaction to the announcement from the Office for National Statistics on Twitter: I am
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