The Accounting Streams project, of which I have been a director since its inception, concluded publication of its first-year undergraduate online, and free-to-access accounting textbook
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Stock markets are mad
Despite the madness of Trump, the continuing reality of tariffs and an unsurprising fall in US GDP, stock markets have recovered their losses. This makes
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A six does it
I am glad that I did not stay up all night waiting for the by-election result in Runcorn and Helsby, because it was only called
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The politics of walking about
As the New York Times notes in a newsletter this morning: A small cafe-bar in western France recently had a surprising visitor: the president of
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The Bank of England, teacher training and the failure of sixth form economics
The Bank of England put out this breathy press release yesterday: The related information is here. The claim is that: Economics is currently offered as
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Trump’s mayhem is already imposing a very high price
It takes some effort for a US president to create chaos and destruction on the scale that Donald Trump has. I have already commented on
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The House of Lords: the rich and the poor
I thought it worth sharing this video from Prem Sikka, who is an old friend of mine, another Emeritus Professor of Accounting at the University
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Trump, Carney, Starmer and Farage: a toxic political mix that’s going nowhere
Carney and Starmer are technocrats – stuck in the middle without ever realising there are clowns to the right of them, and no jokers, or
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Special relationship? I don’t think so
As The Guardian reports this morning: Donald Trump has made a trade deal with the UK a second-order priority, sources have told the Guardian, hampering
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