My thoughts on Easter Sunday received the inevitable backlash yesterday, including the suggestion that I was politicising Easter from someone who claimed to be a
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Johnson’s decision to go to Chequers will come back to haunt him, but I sincerely hope only politically
I was deeply unpopular with some in Twitter for making this comment yesterday: Why can Boris Johnson go to his second home when no one
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The government’s business bailout is still failing – spectacularly
As Politico reports this morning in an email (and I have edited for narrative flow): Business Secretary Alok Sharma admitted to Sky’s Sophy Ridge [this
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What we need is an economy that embraces and values care
I wrote a tweet this morning as an Easter reflection. You can be of any faith and none and hope for renewal today, wishing that
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The UK hunger crisis is going to arrive, very soon
As I predicted on March 24, people in the UK are beginning to go hungry as a result of the coronavirus crisis. As Felicity Lawrence
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The timeline of the coronavirus crisis
I have quoted Dr Rupert Read, a philosopher at the University of East Anglia and Green Party politician, here before. This tweet and the related
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Tax abuse, tax havens and Modern Monetary Theory
I was asked yesterday on this blog why issues such as tax abuse and the use of tax havens remain important when modern monetary theory
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Johnson’s refusal to isolate led us to the point where this crisis is worse than it needed to be: he has to be held to account for that
We should never doubt that the UK government chose that we suffer Covid-19 more than other states. On February 3rd Boris Johnson gave a speech
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The government’s misinformation on Covid-19 deaths is unforgivable
I am not going to accuse the UK government of lying to us about Covid-19 deaths, because that would be too kind to them. 980
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