Politics Home has reported that: A group of peers, think tanks and economic experts are set to launch a new parliamentary group focused on pressuring
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George Osborne’s legacy is a fourfold increase in malnutrition in England
The Times has reported today that: Almost 11,000 people in England were hospitalised with malnutrition last year, as doctors warned that the cost of living
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It’s no wonder that I have a huge deficit of trust in Labour politics
Wes Streeting – Labour’s shadow health secretary – wrote this in the Observer yesterday: Friday in my constituency summed up for me the state of
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We need a new economics. But who will pay attention when most people are paid to adhere to the economics that is failing us?
It is a morning of very mixed messages on the economy. According to the FT: Chancellor Jeremy Hunt will on Monday set out a series
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It’s time the politicians opposed to our well-being stopped condemning Just Stop Oil protests.
I put this on Twitter last night: All those years of austerity. The NHS in ruins as a result. The absence of any effective climate
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Reeves and Starmer: maintainers of the status quo
The Sunday Times posted this on Twitter overnight: Ed Miliband gave a Powerpoint presentation to the shadow cabinet on his revolutionary energy policies, speaking excitedly
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Where has Labour’s purpose gone?
I, and others I know, seem to be increasingly engaged with Labour politicians deeply worried that the Labour leadership is so dedicated to fiscal austerity
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Reappointed
Some personal news. I learned this morning that I have been reappointed as Professor of Accounting Practice at Sheffield University Management School until August 2026.
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The Green Party’s policy on money, and so on the economy, is a work of economic fantasy
Having noted that the Greens were a plausible recipient of my vote yesterday on the basis of their green policies and support for proportional representation,
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