The Importance of Custody, or NATO’s Internal Gold War
Both the UK’s Government and the Bank of England have gotten suspiciously tetchy over German requests to get its gold back.
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Colonial Taxes Built Britain. That Must Be Taught in Lessons on Empire
UK government ministers want the British Empire benefits to be taught in schools. Don’t let them ignore the death and destruction it inflicted
Read more...COVID Bailouts Helped Politically Connected Businesses More Than Others – New Research
Firms with political connections, and those owned by large and influential shareholders, benefitted most from allocation of COVID bailout funds.
Read more...Banning the Promotion of Soft Drinks Could be More Effective Than a Sugar Tax
Banning sales promotions of sugary drinks could lead people to cut back on their consumption.
Read more...The UK’s Post-Brexit Review of ‘Retained EU Law’ Risks Undermining Democracy
Brexit requires the Government to disentangle domestic law from EU law. The preferred plan is to hand more power to unaccountable ministers
Read more...Bad as QE Was, Unwinding It Rapidly Could Be Worse
Getting out of super low interest rates and unwinding QE is proving to be easier said than done.
Read more...Remember That the Tories Are Only Getting Rid of Johnson To Make Things Worse
What happens to and after Johnson which is very much in play.
Read more...Most People Want an Active Government, Working on Their Side. It Is Time Those Seeking Power Took Note.
The UK government, like its US counterpart, is not held in much respect. Does this create an opportunity?
Read more...Climate Change: Adapt for the Future, Not the Past
Climate adaptation in the global South needs to be addressed through development. Moving from de-risking to diversification requires a developmental state committed to ‘green’ industrial policy – involving investment and technology.
Read more...How Poorer Citizens Pay the Price of Economic Change in the UK
From the speeding up of deindustrialisation and globalisation that began in the early 1980s to the 2008 financial crisis and the decade of austerity that followed, Britain’s economic system has operated with a built-in inequality bias.
Read more...The Campaign to Protect Christmas Profits from Omicron
Omicron updates along with some of the considerable noise.
Read more...Go Private for the Treatment You Need, NHS Tells Patients
NHS patients are being refused treatment, discharged too early and pushed towards private referrals.
Read more...An Increase in Interest Rates Would Be An Act of Class Warfare
While increasing interest rates to combat this inflation is bone-headed, the Fed has long wanted to be out of super low rate terrain.
Read more...“Want to See a Modern Country Commit Suicide? Take a Hard Look at Britain”
Post Brexit Britain is not doing at all well, and things are not going to take a turn any time soon.
Read more...Net Zero, Insulation, Boilers, and English Dampness, or Symbol Manipulators Versus Existing Conditions
The English gas boiler as a microcosm of Anglosphere elites’ inability to come up with realistic carbon reduction schemes.
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