I was pleased to see this tweet by Juan Pablo Guererro of the Global Initiative for Financial Transparency, who joined us at City, University of
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The UK’s failing economic model demands bold ideas
I was a signatory to this letter in the FT this morning: The UK’s failing economic model demands such bold ideas From David Blanchflower and
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This is not the time to give up
I was told by an academic I respect that they’d had enough of Brexit yesterday. It was too difficult to watch the country being torn
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Amazon: setting the record straight
The right-wing, anti-business having to pay their fair share of tax brigade were out in force on the blog yesterday. They were incensed by my
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Political realignment is inevitable: business will want a say again
I was having a discussion with a friend a day or two ago. Politics is not a common subject of conversation between us. These, though,
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Green QE, from this blog to the IMF
The IMF posted a blog on its website yesterday under the title: A Role for Financial and Monetary Policies in Climate Change Mitigation It summarised
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Tax and the Spending Review
I wrote this for one of the organisations I am associated with yesterday with regard to the Spending Review and thought it worth sharing here:
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Is Cummings as clever as he thinks?
I was having a discussion with someone yesterday, who shall remain nameless, who I would consider a shrewd political thinker.We were discussing the events of
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Policies for a win
I have already said I will be voting tactically in any forthcoming general election. I have indicated that I would be willing to vote for
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