This morning’s walk. East Anglian clouds: And a gatekeeper butterfly, staying still for a second or so with its wing open: The gatekeeper is surprisingly
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The spare bedroom won
When I began tax justice campaigning I was often asked by the curious where I came from. I was often tempted to say ‘from my
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The British public is fully behind ambitious green growth
As the FT noted this week in an article from the always interesting John Burn-Murdoch: It’s not often these days that one thinks of Britain
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It’s time pension funds accepted the reailty of climate change
A new report for Carbon Tracker on pension funds, their investment decision making and climate change written by Steve Keen is introduced by Carbon Tracker
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Is there a future for ethical banking?
I posted this on Twitter this morning: The question is serious, and gets to the core of the Farage canpaign. The object of Farage, Sunak,
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Why is the Bank of England selling bonds at a loss when it does not need to do so?
As I have noted this morning, the Bank of England is now reporting that it might make a loss of £150 billion on the disposal
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The Bank of England wants to make a loss of £150 billion so that governments will be forced to cut spending. That is the real banking scandal of our time.
A number of people have asked me to comment on this article in the FT from a few days ago: To do so I have
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The economics of walking about in Scotland
This is the conclusion to my article in The National yesterday: There are few countries in the world with better natural resources capable of delivering
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Ingordigious
I very much liked this tweet by lexicographer Susie Dent: Word of the day is ‘ingordigious’ (17th century): motivated primarily by greed. — Susie Dent
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