No one talks about extreme centrists. They should, because they’re the people who want to maintain the status quo when it’s glaringly obvious that we
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Investing in young people and music
I am a bit of a fan of Rik Beato’s YouTube channel. He’s a geek, and I like geeks, and most especially those who become
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Let’s not pretend nuclear works
As the Public Accounts Committee has reported this week: The retrieval of waste from ageing buildings at the most hazardous nuclear site in the UK
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Reform’s imploding
I posted this video on 11 May: Yesterday we learned this: Reform is finding it impossible to be coherent as a political party. The problem
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Holding the ICAEW to account
My friend and former City, University of London, colleague Prof Atul Shah attended the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales AGM this week,
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What if Trump fails?
Consider a possibility for a moment. I’m not suggesting that Trump‘s Big Beautiful Bill Act is not going to reach the US statute book, but
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Are bond vigilantes really in control?
The idea that bond vigilantes can set government policy suits the City and neoliberal politicians, who’d like it to be true. But is it? This
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The Taxing Wealth Report 2024 in The Guardian
There are moments when any writer wonders whether anyone but their friends and family is taking a lot of notice. I admit that social media
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You have been warned; markets are making no sense
This is the chart of the MSCI All-Country World Equity Index from Investing.com: The index is a weighted measure of the change in equity shares
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