It seems like only yesterday that I was being told that Covid was no longer a threat, case numbers were minimal and the link between
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Why I have written blogs about the Tax Justice Network
Regular readers of this blog will notice that I have written two posts this week (here and here) with regard to the work of the
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Thousands are going to die to keep Boris Johnson in Number 10
No one could think Sebastian Payne, who writes for the FT, anything but a Tory. He issued this tweet last night: The FT article is
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The NHS is under real threat of privatisation, and this time the impact is likely to be very significant
The reform of the NHS is now before parliament but is attracting almost no attention in the media at present. That is wrong. In effect
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The only right response from the Bank of England to increased inflation is to do precisely nothing
As the FT has noted this morning: Britain’s inflation rate rose sharply in June, far exceeding expectations and adding to pressure on the Bank of
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The Tax Justice Network’s review of the State of Tax Justice is not credible
I have this morning published a new report that considers the appropriateness of the claims made in the Tax Justice Network’s (TJN) State of Tax
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The government has Covid and racism wrong. It’s also wildly optimistic on the economy.
I made a rare visit to London yesterday. It was only my second since March 2020. All present agreed that as we reluctantly accepted we
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The Tories are racist for political gain, and are being caught out for it
The culture war against wokism has been Boris Johnson’s creation. He made it clear he has no time for those who are woke, which the Merriam-Webster
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The increase in wealth inequality during Covid is not an accident: it is a design fault that needs to be corrected
The Resolution Foundation has published a report this morning in the massive increase in wealth that the wealthiest in the UK have enjoyed during the
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