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...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...Local markets, not supermarkets, are a key part of reviving city centres as the UK emerges from its coronavirus lockdown.
Read more...United Nations warns about food security, particularly for the world’s poorest, as the COVID-19 recession overwhelms the globe.
Read more...David Cameron promised to stop scammers and kleptocrats hiding behind British shell companies. But almost one in ten UK firms still do not declare ‘persons of significant control’
Read more...The news on the EU and UK fronts is less than promising. It looks good only compared to rampaging cops on this side of the pond.
Read more...The UK court is play so dirty with Craig Murray that it might make our FISA court look good.
Read more...More Brexit chest-thumping.
Read more...In this time of worldwide COVID-19 pandemic, stork chicks hatch in the United Kingdom for the first time in 600 years.
Read more...The same bad Brexit dynamics are very much in place.
Read more...UN warns about coronavirus and food shortages. Will the crisis revive policies to encourage regional and national food self-sufficiency?
Read more...In theory, Brexit negotiations are moving forward, but they sure don’t look like it.
Read more...Cutting subsidies for private rental housing did not do much to reduce overall spending or lower rents but caused a lot of pain.
Read more...A Plastic Planet seeks to include sachets in UK and EU single-use plastic bans; meanwhile, NY plastic shopping bag ban begins 1 March.
Read more...Is Boris Johnson misunderstood?
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