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A question for the leaders’ debate...
I was asked this morning to ask for the party leaders' debate this week. I recorded this video whilst having a coffee wh ...
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Has the IFS been reading the Taxing Wealth Report ...
I ask this question because, as the FT has noted: In the Taxing Wealth Report 2024, I argue for a number of reforms to ...
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Why are English political parties so desperate to ...
This is my YouTube short video this morning: The link is here. This is the transcript: There are three English parties ...
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Is there too much testing in schools?...
This is my YouTube short this morning: My suggestion is that everyone thinks that there is too much testing in schools, ...
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Do we really need to learn trigonometry?...
This is my YouTube short of the day - based on my frustration that schools teach maths that is irrelevant to 99.8% of th ...
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Maths is great, but not if it’s taught to imply th...
I seemed to stir up a hornet’s nest with regard to maths education here based on a YouTube short video I posted yesterda ...
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Wes Streeting seems to hate the NHS...
This is my YouTube short this morning: The transcript is: Wes Streeting seems to hate the NHS. He's written an article ...
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The NHS is being dumbed down...
This is my YouTube short this morning: You can watch it here. The transcript is: The NHS is being dumbed down. What I ...
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Accounting Streams at Leeds...
I have been discussing accounting education at a conference at the University of Leeds for the last couple of days, and ...
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The Greens really will be the biggest losers in th...
I found this opinion poll outcome, sent to me by Ipsos Mori this morning, fascinating: Labour apart, the Greens have th ...
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Multiplier effects...
This is today's YouTube short video: The issue is important. Watch it here. The transcript is: At this election, ask ...
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Sunak can find the cash when it comes to pensioner...
The FT features a story in all the papers this morning, highlighting Sunak’s bung to pensioners, who are the only group ...
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Goslings in a row...
I was out and about again this morning, even if I returned to my desk this afternoon. It was a glorious morning, with me ...
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My best hope is that Wes Streeting is incompetent,...
I guess I had to talk about Wes Streeting at some time during the course of this damp squib of an election campaign, bec ...
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Inflation will be tumbling this week...
I posted this video on YouTube this morning. In it I suggest that this week's inflation data will show what I have predi ...
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Most people do not expect this election to change ...
Fairly soon after the election was called last night I put a couple of polls on Twitter: All the usual caveats apply. O ...
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A slight northerly breeze...
It was a glorious morning, with a slight northerly breeze keeping the heat off at first. These were blowing exactly on a ...
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The cost of compensating victims of the contaminat...
I posted this very short thread to Twitter last night: This story is going to be everywhere in the news over the next c ...
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When the pursuit of ever greater wealth for the al...
The Dow Jones Index of traded shares values in the USA hit 40,000 yesterday, for the first time. This is the index over ...
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Life does not get much better than this...
A near-perfect spring weekend. Thyme in my back garden. Early morning residues of rain on ivy, also in the back garden: ...
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