My column in The National yesterday addressed one of those thing that profoundly annoys me, which is politician’s referring to ‘taxpayers’ money’. As I said:
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I posted this thread on Twitter this morning. It covers water, nationalisation and dire accounting by the Office for National Statistics: Discussions I have had
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There are three things that the UK commentariat seems to agree upon right now. The first is Sunak has given up. The second Starmer has
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Facebook has launched, via Instagram, a new Twitter rival overnight. Called Threads I am now on it urging my usual RichardJMurphy name, as on Twitter
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I posted this thread on Twitter this morning: This year the government will give the UK’s banks £45 billion they have done nothing to earn.
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I did an interview yesterday morning for a specialist financial organisation during which I suggested Thames Water was in more trouble than it claimed because
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It’s good to see one Labour candidate who is not talking right-wing nonsense. I have known Faiza Shaheen for well over a decade now, and
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As The Guardian notes this morning: The government is drawing up plans to drop the UK’s flagship £11.6bn climate and nature funding pledge, the Guardian can
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It’s taken a while (since March 17th) but I have added another 10,000 Twitter followers, largely due to recent Twitter threads: Elon Musk is making
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