I am so bored of the government saying crass things like ‘we are going to have to get used to living with Covid’. This is,
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The government is going for green bonds – but by the look of it, the wrong green bonds
This story was in The Times yesterday: The essence of the story is that £15 billion of government backed bonds are to be made available,
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Yet more corruption risk comes to light
I share this from the Good Law Project, just received: Good Law Project Dear Richard,Good Law Project can reveal the existence of a VIP lane
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Inflation is not what we need to worry about: the risk of major collapse in the private sector is what should be troubling us right now
Today we had a parting shot from Andy Haldane on leaving the Bank of England, in. which he claimed inflation will be 4% by Christmas,
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The government thinks it’s all over, but this one has got everything wrong
I noted this in the Guardian this morning: Figures from the Office for National Statistics show debit and credit card transactions fell by 5% over
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Planning the next next stage
As may be apparent, I have not been on the ball (to use a footballing metaphor) this morning. No, that is not because of football.
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Distractions happen
There is a flaw in the government’s plan to let Covid rip through the population, and that is that Tories get Covid
I wrote this tweet this morning: No isolation for schoolchildren exposed to Covid means no isolation for their parents either. A year after the Great
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Anger with the government is appropriate, but Covid recklessness is not the right response
Something happened over the weekend. No, I am not talking about Matt Hancock’s resignation. I am talking about the release of interviewer anger with the
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