There are some weird messages coming out of the Big 4 accountants on the state of the economy right now. The messages do not come
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Covid is still a mass killer – but the government is pretending otherwise
There is a popular narrative that Covid has gone away. Except it has not: 25,700 excess deaths in the UK in half a yr (on
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Inflation is mainly down to profiteering. Any other suggestion is misinformation.
I mentioned a couple of days ago that the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has concluded that the biggest contributor to inflation is profiteering by the
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Why should children have suffered deafness because of austerity?
I read this astonishing tweet this morning: https://twitter.com/shaunlintern/status/1673584719412305923?s=61&t=fQEnD35XLiGihXLT1M1wyA It would appear that a shortage of funds that arose as a direct result of austerity will
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Inflation policy is not only making inflation worse, it’s failing those it should protect.
The obsession with inflation that is dominating UK economic policy at present has some justification, but only if the proposed remedies are better than the
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Profits are driving inflation. When will politicians and the Bank of England admit it?
As the IMF has just reported: Rising corporate profits account for almost half the increase in Europe’s inflation over the past two years as companies
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Is resilience just another neoliberal trope?
There is no justification for releasing hell on earth for millions
Martin Wolf wrote an article for the FT that began by saying: At this stage in the inflationary process, a central bank needs to show
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Has the two party system now reached its nadir?
I was on LBC last night, talking to Rachel Johnson, the sister of the former PM. I did not sit on the fence: 'The Bank
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