I share this from the Guardian morning newsletter today: The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has delivered its “final warning” on the climate emergency. The
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We were right about the police: now what is going to be done about it?
The review of the Metropolitan Police by Lady Louise Casey, released today, was commissioned after the abduction, rape and murder of Sarah Everard in 2021.
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Let’s not pretend otherwise: we have a banking crisis. It is time to talk about it rather than deny it.
Martin Wolf has an article in the FT this morning which is good. First, he says we have a bank crisis, and I agree with
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Sixty five
I was 65 at 6.05 this morning. I know the time because I have a twin, and so the time is on my birth certificate.
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Central bank reaction to the banking crisis is too little, too late already
Danny Blanchflower and I have released this press release this afternoon: Too little, too late, Central bank reaction to the growing global banking crisis is
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Does Tax Research need its own mobile app?
Traffic on this blog since I began the redesign a few weeks ago has grown considerably. That had been especially true since adding polls, like
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Banking is in meltdown, again. Will central bankers finally accept that their job is to serve society and not bankers?
That there would be a meltdown in world banking was obvious to Danny Blanchflower and me as we worked on our submission to the Treasury
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The banking crisis shows we need to cancel quantitative tightening, cut interest rates now and restart quantitative easing
The following is an edited extract from the report that Danny Blanchflower and I have submitted to the House of Commons Treasury Committee on quantitative
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Data on doctors leaving the NHS could not justify the pension bung for the very wealthy
I was approached by David Burke of the Daily Mirror yesterday to comment on this data in the context of the new pension tax reliefs
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