I am sharing this press release from an organisation called the Policy Reform Group, of which I admit I know little. The release refers to
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Sunak is claiming he is the grown up in the room. It may be more appropriate to call him the economic sadist in the room.
I referred to the resignation of the government’s commissioner for education catch up yesterday. I suggested that the government really does not care about children.
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The Green New Deal for the UK’s housing stock could create 500,000 new jobs, and is deliverable. What is more, paying for it is easy.
Colin Hines and I have been calling for a retrofit green insulation and generation programme for the 28 million houses in the UK for longer
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The government really does not care about children
As the TES has reported: The education recovery commissioner, Sir Kevan Collins has written to the prime minister Boris Johnson to offer his resignation this
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UK government borrowing in 2020/21 was £19 billion, at most. So where was the economic crisis that prevented lockdown and caused so many deaths? Nowhere to be seen, of course. It was all just dogma.
I was asked yesterday how much of the government deficit in the last financial year was funded by government borrowing, and how much by quantitative
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US democracy is at risk – and the UK is following in its path
I am sharing the following statement of concern issued in the US by more than 100 academics who are worried about the state of US
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The EU did not rise to the challenge of country-by-country reporting
I wrote yesterday about the negotiation that was scheduled on country-by-country reporting in the EU which, it was hoped would bring a favourable outcome by
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How long will it be before reversing Brexit becomes an acceptable topic for political debate?
This is the Telegraph’s business page today: This is the start of the story on Tim Martin, the boss of Wetherspoons: Tim Martin was a
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My vision for the future of auditing and accounting
I have a pretty radical vision for the future of audit, which is intimately related to accounting and is focussed on meeting users’ needs. In
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