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Inspection of Grenfell Recovery Spending Pledged – But Local Concerns Remain
The council has committed to producing a dedicated financial report for the first time since the disaster, as many survivors and the bereaved say that funds have been squandered
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Cashing Out: New Currency Kings Emerge in the COVID World
Martin Baker explores how the Coronavirus pandemic has hastened the rise and demise of digital and physical currencies
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Inside Nigel Farage’s New Money-Spinning Project
Henry Anderson delves into Farage’s financial newsletter, revealing its ties to an EU-based company and fake health news
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Budget 2021: Why is Rishi Sunak Deliberately Harming a Whole Sector of the Economy?
Mike Buckley assesses how the Chancellor is making an economic and political error by continuing to not provide support for company directors, representing 900,000 businesses
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Budget 2021: Rishi Sunak is Bailing Out Himself
The Chancellor is asking the UK to foot the bill for his monumental mistakes, argues Sam Bright
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Sunak is Peddling the Same Austerity Fallacies as His Predecessors
David Barker unpicks the Chancellor’s claims that public sector cuts benefitted Britain during the pandemic
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The Bitcoin Boom Threatening the Financial Mainstream
Martin Baker sets the scene of a cryptocurrency revolution led by the surge in the price of Bitcoin
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Refugees from Hong Kong Could be Exactly what Post-Brexit, Post-COVID Britain Needs
Jonathan Portes explores how the Government’s offer of a home to those being politically repressed in the former British colony could mark a shift in the UK’s economy and immigration debate
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HSBC ‘Aided One of World’s Biggest Crackdowns on Democracy’, MPs Tell Banker
The British bank’s bosses struggled to defend its record of being complicit in China’s crackdown in Hong Kong, reports Steve Shaw
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The Red-Tape Curtain: The New Costs Afflicting Businesses After Brexit
Richard Barfield explains the deluge of restrictions and regulations that have been saddled on firms after the UK’s departure from the EU
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Rishi Sunak Is Risking Jobs, Recovery and the Conservatives’ Reputation on Economic Competence
Mike Buckley highlights one forgotten group which the Chancellor has not offered support to during the Coronavirus crisis, but which will be key to the UK’s economic recovery
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Do Lockdowns Kill More People than they Save? How Quickly Can the Economy Bounce Back?
A year into the Coronavirus pandemic, Jonathan Portes checks what he got right about its impact and what he got wrong
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‘Ludicrous’ Brexit VAT Change Wreaks Havoc on Businesses
Stephen Delahunty and David Hencke report on the changed rules stifling UK imports and exports in red tape
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As Trump Leaves, Republicans Will Shamelessly Fake Concern for Debt and Deficits
Joe Biden’s arrival in the White House in January will expose the Republican Party’s hypocrisy and duplicity as it turns its gaze to economic concerns for partisan gain once more, says CJ Werleman
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British Banks Tied to A Military Accused of Genocide
Steve Shaw reports on the loans that connect British banks to a telecommunications firm that provides money for Myanmar’s military, which has been accused of genocide
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Biden’s Biggest Challenge Could be Saving the American Economy
The incoming presidential administration faces grave economic challenges ahead that could spell the end of the dollar’s global dominance, argues James Meadway
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Evidence of Fraudsters Claiming Billions in COVID Loans Passed to MPs
A new report by the Public Accounts Committee sheds light on the Government’s Bounce Back Loan Scheme, with applicants self-certifying and not subject to credit checks
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Government Refuses to Condemn HSBC for ‘Colluding’ with China in Hong Kong
The British bank froze the accounts of people involved in Hong Kong’s struggle for democracy as leading activists are convicted of their roles in mass protests
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The Tax Man Cometh: Robert Mercer, William Barr and Trump’s Chinese Bank Account
Heidi Siegmund Cuda talks to veteran tax investigator Martin Sheil about how much the incoming Biden administration could do by enforcing existing laws
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Conservative Factionalism at War with Economic Reality
James Meadway assesses the political and economic pressures facing Chancellor Rishi Sunak ahead of tomorrow’s Spending Review
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Furlough Fraud Probe Into £4 Billion Paid to Firms with Working Employees
A new report by the National Audit Office reveals that the Government is launching an inquiry and considering ‘naming and shaming’ the employers involved
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The Government Tightening Its Belt with the North will Keep Us All in this COVID Chaos
By curtailing the furlough scheme, Rishi Sunak has undermined the trust on which Coronavirus restrictions operate, argues Sam Bright
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Staggering Hypocrisy: The Institutions Financing Destruction of the Amazon While Promoting ‘Green Credentials’
Monica Piccinini reveals the hypocrisy of the financial institutions that are enabling the destruction of the Amazon rainforest
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Paying for COVID-19: Local Government Braces Itself for Second Wave of Austerity
After years of underfunding, local governments are being tipped over the edge by centralised COVID-19 incompetence, argues former council accountant Gary Gowers
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COVID-19 and the End of Economic Fatalism
In the global response to the Coronavirus pandemic, Anthony Barnett sees an epoch-defining moment as governments are forced to put people’s health and wellbeing before market fundamentalism
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Fraudsters Could Have Claimed ‘Billions’ From Sunak Loan Scheme
A new report has crystallised concerns that Chancellor Rishi Sunak’s Coronavirus loan scheme left the taxpayer exposed to fraud
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The Paradox of Brexit and COVID-19: Closer to Europe
Jonathan Portes argues that the Government’s EU negotiations and Coronavirus measures are actually drawing the UK deeper into the European mainstream
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Tufton Street and News International Actions Show that Extinction Rebellion is Evolving
Stephen Colegrave talks to co-founder of the Writer’s Rebel group, Jessica Townsend, about their shifting strategy and where XR is heading next Jessica Townsend joined Extinction Rebellion (XR) early on and was present at the declaration and the first rebellion. Originally, she didn’t intend to become an environmental activist but was writing her first novel…
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Saving Private Equity: Why Johnson Really Wants Us Back in the Office
Christiana Spens looks at the financial pressures and potential lobbying from property developers that could be driving the UK Government’s Coronavirus response
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Greed and Destruction: COVID-19 Isn’t Slowing the Demolition of the Amazon
Monica Piccinini reports on the relentless felling of forest habitats by Brazilian big business and Government
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By Failing on COVID-19 and Trashing the Economy, Boris Johnson has shown Britain Can’t be ‘Superman’
With the UK officially now in recession, and carrying the worst COVID-19 death rate per million, Mike Buckley argues that the rot set into the British state years ago
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Year Zero: Coronavirus Presents a Final Chance to Save the Planet
With more than $10 trillion of investment planned around the world in response to the Coronavirus pandemic, Stephen Colegrave considers whether this money can be used to halt climate change
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Australia’s Second Coronavirus Wave is a Warning to the World
CJ Werleman reports on new outbreaks in Melbourne, which have led to a spike of new Coronavirus cases and reversed the grip the country had successfully established over COVID-19
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Boris Johnson’s Great Spaffometer
Stephen Colegrave tries to estimate how many billions the Prime Minister and his Government have wasted in their first year in power
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The Dual Blow of COVID-19 and Brexit Part Two: The UK Must Retain Links with Europe to Avert Catastrophe
Mike Buckley argues that the UK may have the freedom Brexiters promised, but no idea what is in its best economic interests
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The American Catastrophe Awaiting Joe Biden
CJ Werleman explores the economic and social consequences of the US Government’s mismanagement of the Coronavirus crisis for the next President
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Conservatives’ New ‘Red Wall’ Constituencies Among Areas Worst Affected by COVID-19
Sam Bright highlights new data showing that industrial heartlands are suffering disproportionately from the Coronavirus pandemic
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SAGEGATE – Part Three: Cummings and Johnson Defied Scientific Advisors by Lifting Restrictions Without Robust Track and Trace
The third part of Nafeez Ahmed’s investigation shows how public health was sacrificed to ideology as the lockdown was eased
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SAGEGATE – Part One: Treasury and Downing Street Advisors Delayed COVID-19 Lockdown
Nafeez Ahmed reveals how the outside pressure weighed on SAGE to prioritise ‘supply chains’, the ‘wider economy’, ‘workforce’ and ‘business’
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SAGEGATE: How Government Neutered Science to Save the Economy and Chase the Ghost of Herd Immunity
After a comprehensive investigation into five months of SAGE documents Nafeez Ahmed arrives at some shocking findings
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Boris Johnson is Build, Build, Building No Hope in Wales
The Prime Minister has made a miscalculation in his plans for an economic recovery from the COVID-19 crisis which is entirely focused on England, writes Gareth Roberts
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For Once, Gove Was Right – Britain Needs a Roosevelt-Style New Deal
With a historic depression looming and millions of jobs at risk, Mike Buckley argues that now is the time to do more than echo the words of the President who rescued the US from the Great Depression
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The HSBC Loan Scandal Leaving Small Businesses On the Edge
Adrian Goldberg speaks to business owners who say their attempts to secure a Bounce Back Loan from the bank during the Coronavirus crisis has only added to their problems
