As the Guardian noted today: Dominic Raab is to outline a sweeping overhaul of human rights law that he claims will counter “wokery and political
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I worry about how politics might come out on the other side of omicron. Can democracy survive the idiots that we have in the Commons?
I have already noted this morning that exceptionally serious scientists and the UK’s chief medical officers all agree that we face the risk of the
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Reasonable forecasts suggest that we are facing a health crisis of a scale no-one in the UK has ever previously experienced
The UK’s chief medical officers increased their assessment of the threat from Covid to level five yesterday. What that means is that they think that
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Corporate Accountability Network Audit Briefing – what is a public interest entity?
As I have noted previously on this blog, the Corporate Accountability Network, which I direct, is publishing a series of Audit Briefings that discuss the
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Taxing multi-millionaires – equalising capital gains tax and income tax rates
In a series of videos I am looking at practical ways in which we can tackle the problems created by inequality in the UK, particularly
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We are so very, very far from levelling up when this Tory government has done its level best to make the UK a more unequal place
The New Economics Foundation has a new report out this morning on the impact of the Covid crisis on income and wealth using modelling originally
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The Covid response suggests that Tory MPs now think that delivering death in the community is what politics is all about
We have, according to Boris Johnson, a national emergency. For once, I will not disagree with him. Omicron is creating a crisis with regard to
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Hope is what it’s all about
I had a number of appreciative comments for my deconstruction of an article on modern monetary theory in The Guardian, which I published in Saturday,
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Taxing multi-millionaires – an investment income surcharge
In a series of videos (the production of which has been delayed by Jack Lennon, my video editor, moving house) I am looking at practical ways
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