Importing Inequality: Immigration and the Top 1%
Data from UK tax records with new information on migrant status to show that that migrants are highly represented at the top of the UK’s income distribution.
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Journey into a Libertarian Future: Part V – Dark Realities
A libertarian perspective on nobility, democracy, and lobbying.
Read more...Brexit: Snake Eyes
Boris Johnson is pressing his Brexit luck, which wasn’t looking all that hot.
Read more...We Lost Because We Weren’t Big Enough (the Left in the UK and the US)
Where now for Anglo-American socialism?
Read more...Brexit: Pear Shaped
A desperate Government Brexit ploy, perhaps conceived to increase its negotiating options, has quickly become an own goal.
Read more...A Levels: Government’s U-Turn Has Left Universities in the Lurch
The A-level crisis is increasing pressures on UK universities already stressed by COVID-19, as are their US and Australian counterparts.
Read more...UK Government Accused of New “U-Turn” on Local Covid Contact Tracing with Outsourcing Giants Serco and Sitel
“Local councils should be doing the whole lot, not just the mopping up. Serco and Sitel are cherry picking and doing the easy bits and leaving the difficult stuff to local authorities.”
Read more...The A Levels Results Crisis and the Covid Education Train Wreck
Covid-19 is increasing inequality in educational outcomes, and that problem isn’t going away any time soon.
Read more...Austria Confirms OPCW Report On Skripal Faking by the British – Vienna Exposes Financial Times Lies and Cover-Up
Revealing a big hole in the official Skripal story.
Read more...Brexit: Running Down the Clock?
Brexit is not going much of anywhere, and it still isn’t clear if this is by accident or design.
Read more...Beneath the Bluster, Boris Johnson’s ‘New Deal’ Offers Nothing New
Boris Johnson’s effort at a New Deal Big Lie goes splat.
Read more...Some Basic Lessons for the Governor of the Bank of England, Who Seems to be in Dire Need of Them
The Governor of the Bank of England had a major “put foot in mouth and chew” episode.
Read more...Grenfell Tower Fire: Third-Year Anniversary (Non-)Progress Report
Some progress on Grenfell Tower: Remediating apartment blocks, ongoing inquiries, regulatory proposals. But not nearly enough. And then there’s the potential IT boondoggle. They were careless people, Tom and Daisy…
Read more...The Bank of England Votes for More QE – But This Is a Road That Will Run Out
Yves here. Richard Murphy’s observations about QE hitting its limits are clearly relevant to the US. Sadly, things will have to get worse before ideas like a job guarantee or Green New Deal-type work schemes even get a hearing. By Richard Murphy, a chartered accountant and a political economist. He has been described by the Guardian […]
Read more...Coronavirus Recovery: Why Local Markets are Key to Reviving Our Locked Down Town Centres
Local markets, not supermarkets, are a key part of reviving city centres as the UK emerges from its coronavirus lockdown.
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