I have sent the letter that follows to Pascal St Amans, head of tax at the OECD, this morning. The signatories were all involved in
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The vain futility of financiers
Bankers like to think that they are the masters of the universe. Central bankers are the worst kind of bankers in this regard. The actions
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Scotonomics and the Green New Deal
I did a Youtube meeting with the Scotonomics team of Kairin van Sweeden and William Thomson last night, roaming over a whole range of green
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A Tory Prime Minister commands the absolute support of his party until the moment that they do not, and Johnson can only humiliate his MPs so often before they’ll have had enough of his corruption
There is universal condemnation of the Tory vote to find MP Owen Paterson not guilty of offences he very clearly committed yesterday. When the Mail
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Brandolini’s law
Malcolm Reavell introduced me to the idea of Brandolini’s Law on a post on the Facebook page of Modern Money Scotland. Wikipedia summarises the law
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Has the right succeeded in dropping democratic degradation so steadily into our systems of government that we have not noticed, and still aren’t?
I have already noted this morning that Trump is looking as if he might return in the USA. I have also noted the UK government’s
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It’s as if the government want to open the floodgates to corruption
As Politico reports this morning: As the prime minister returns to Westminster, the news is quickly moving on to a remarkable attempt by Downing Street
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The biggest threat to the fight against climate change is Trump
As the FT report this morning: The Virginia governor’s race has always been treated as a referendum on the White House incumbent. The result this
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Covid makes the likelihood of recession uncomfortably high
Covid deaths are still rising: Using deaths by week data and adding that for the last equivalent week of October as reported by day the
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