The UK’s three Crown Dependencies – Jersey, Guernsey and the Isle of Man – have just issued press releases on a joint decision, announced today.
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There is no austerity in the Green New Deal
A worrying idea was put to me yesterday. This is that for many people the Green New Deal might simply be a new form of
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The UK tax gap is £90 billion a year
I gather HMRC will be publishing their latest tax gap figures this week. The last are here. I can make a fairly confident prediction. The
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If we’re going to have more QE make it green, please
The FT has noted in an email this morning that: Mario Draghi has given his clearest indication yet that the European Central Bank will launch
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KPMG hit another low as this time they’re fined for cheating
As the FT has reported: KPMG [in the USA] has agreed to pay $50m to settle claims that it went back to alter audits it
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Green bonds will save us from the next pension scandal
I got the typical reactions from right wingers for suggesting that the investment of auto-enrolment pension funds was inappropriate yesterday. Comments included the claims that
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Pensions have to go green or they are of little use to anyone but the already wealthy
There was an article in the Guardian this weekend that argued that millions of people in the UK might retire on less than the living
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No wonder people are fed up with politicians
I watched the Tory Party hustings on Channel 4 last night. I am not going to offer much comment. Instead I will simply note that
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We are not alone
The Observer published the results of an extraordinary survey of the UK electorate yesterday. What they found was: The survey by BritainThinks reveals an astonishing
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