The Real Agenda has just published a Podcast featuring me, made a week or two ago. I can’t seem to embed it, but the link
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No Tory can oppose a new National Investment Bank after this
As the Guardian has reported: The government has handed Jaguar Land Rover a £500m loan guarantee to help accelerate its progress in the global electric vehicle race.
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The IMF and OECD are urging governments to spend – and a Green New Deal is the answer
Yesterday the FT reported: David Lipton, the acting IMF chief, has backed new monetary stimulus by the world’s top central banks to sustain the flagging
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If the NHS is not a charity why are private providers?
I don’t give a great deal of attention to Council Tax here. Peter May at Progressive Pulse (of which I am the director) does. He
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We can deal with a new recession
The Guardian reports this morning that: Britain is facing the highest risk of a recession since the financial crisis and needs urgent plans to combat
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What can’t Labour stop the ‘weird stuff’?
The award for best question of the morning must go to John Harris in the Guardian, who asks: Why, if you want British society to be
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A change of name?
it was put to me over the weekend that this blog may not be as appropriately named now as it was when it was launched
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Accounting: getting the framework right
A question asked at the Corporate Accountability Network launch last week was how can an organisation such as this – as yet virtually unfunded and
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Disruptive thinking
I admit I like disruptive thinking. This, in the Observer today, is excellent by that standard:In the light of large fines this week for data
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