There was a lot of commentary in the financial media at the of last week on, first of all, reports that the Financial Reporting Council
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People don’t vote for ideas so the challenge for the left is to explain how its ideas can turn into practical programmes for a better world
There are people I know who have no interest in politics, or so they say. They certainly evidence almost no knowledge of current political debate,
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The next fight with the right wing is for planetary survival
I have a feeling of de’ja vu. The one time European Research Group of far-right Tory MPs, that did no research, that then morphed as
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Funding the Green New Deal is possible: persuading people of that is the issue
My Green New Deal and Finance for the Future colleague Colin Hines has a blog out with the Green Alliance: In the post he describes
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Somebody is not telling the truth
I was interested to notice this claim published on a website for a publication called International Investment: The statements he made were, of course, in
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It’s time that gas and electricity supplies were nationalised in the interests of all consumers
As the Guardian has reported this morning: Millions of homes will be forced to pay some of the highest energy bills for the past decade
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The Bank of England is furiously treading water
The Bank of England’s Monetary Policy Committee kept interest rates and quantitative easing policy on a steady path yesterday, but did nonetheless respond to suggestions
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GERS day is coming
My column in The National today: 'What I can say with certainty is that GERS is no more useful now than it was when I
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The NHS is suffering from underfunding – and it’s showing
The new Commonwealth Fund report in comparative healthcare in 11 developed countries makes for sober reading. In the last two surveys the UK came top.
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