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25 May 2022 08:27

In the midst of Partygate and all that goes with it the possibility that the continuing passage of the Public Order Bill now before the Read the full article...

The Tories are fascism in progress

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There are any number of ways of seeing the photograph’s issued yesterday of the party Boris Johnson attended on 13 November 2020. Denis Swayne MP Read the full article...

We need a democratic and constitutional revolution

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I wrote an article on Friday for AccountingWEB in which I suggested it inappropriate that the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales profited Read the full article...

Only 2% of people think that the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales should benefit from fines for poor auditing

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According to Boris Johnson work is the way out of the cost of living crisis. Like the Bank of England, Johnson claims the UK has Read the full article...

Work is not the way out of the cost of living crisis

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What gets me are people who do not care. How can they do that? I will never know.

People who do not care

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I have a new article out on AccountingWEB where I ask: Can it really be right that a cosy club-style arrangement between the Financial Reporting Read the full article...

Can it really be right that the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales has profited by £55 million from audit failure?

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A great deal is being said about Partygate today. Those with considerably more legal expertise in this area than I have got appear to be Read the full article...

Let’s face it: the Met must be corrupt. Partygate is really hard to explain unless that is the case

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As the Guardian has noted: Consumer confidence in the UK has fallen to the lowest level since records began in 1974 amid growing concern over the Read the full article...

Public sector debt paranoia at this moment in time is no excuse for the government imposing private poverty on the UK’s population

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One of the arguments that Danny Blanchflower and I are making in our two person opposition to the prevailing establishment thinking on inflation is that Read the full article...

Inflation will go away – because it always does – and in the meantime here’s how to deal with it

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SNP MP Mhairi Black made this speech in parliament yesterday: It is vital we discuss the F word or we risk facing regret forever. pic.twitter.com/7NNQWjaj95 Read the full article...

The F word is out in parliament – and rightly so

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This comes from page 182 of the Kindle edition* of the new Bank of England book on economics, which is in the chapter explaining the Read the full article...

If the Bank of England is to pubish a textbook on economics it really should get it right when it comes to describing how modern banks work – but it does not

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On LBC this morning: Director of Tax Research UK Professor Richard Murphy warns the government is using an outdated policy to deal with inflation as Read the full article...

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This is in The Mirror this morning: Unlike Rishi Sunak, I have a plan to tackle inflation. Read it here.

Six things to do about inflation – my article in The Mirror this morning

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This was published overnight and I got an electronic copy: It's the new book on economics from the Bank of England. I've read the first Read the full article...

“Can’t we just print more money”: the first impression of the Bank of England’s new book on economics is that it’s conceited and patronising

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Because I am discussing what Rishi Sunak had to say when addressing the CBI last night with Nick Ferrari on LBC at just after 7 Read the full article...

Sunak is a man sleep-walking himself to failure, dragging us with him

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I Tweeted this thread this morning:

Ways to tackle inflation – all that needs to be said in a couple of minutes

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The ONS has published new inflation data today. The news is not good, although there is no surprise about that. This is the summary chart: Read the full article...

The inflation we are suffering is by government choice

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Venn diagrams for our times – Tories and ethics

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The House of Commons voted by 310 to 248 to oppose Labour's motion to impose a windfall tax on oil and gas producers last night. Read the full article...

Why did the Tories vote to support profit over people?

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I just tweeted this: The UK's suffering a labour shortage. There are four causes. a) Covid deaths b) Long Covid c) People not working because Read the full article...

The UK’s labour shortages could be solved. Doing so does however require that mistakes on Covid and Brexit be acknowledged. And so it’s not going to happen.