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Economic justice campaigner. Emeritus Professor of Accounting Practice, University of Sheffield. Political economist.

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1Jul 23, '23The Greek government is evacuating Rhodes. Both Labour and the Tories are toying with abandoning environmental policies. I despair.35.8×3.7M12k2.7k42
2Dec 21, '23This idiot is our health secretary. She thinks 'junior doctors' are 'doctors in training'. The reality is that they are all hospital doctors who are not consultants - in other word30.7×3.1M14k3.1k215
3Jun 29, '23There has been much discussion about the likely failure of Thames Water in the last day or so. I’ve been looking at the accounts of England’s water companies for the last twenty ye23.8×2.4M9.4k4.3k1.3k
4Jan 21, '23Sajid Javid says we need to pay £20 for a GP appointment and £66 to go to A&E as a way to solve the NHS funding crisis. He’s wrong because there are so many better options in m21.1×2.2M15k5k666
5Jul 31, '24A simple question. Why did the BBC ever think it appropriate to report that the suspect in the Southport killings was born in Cardiff to parents from Rwanda? If he'd been born in S15×1.5M15k3.1k299
6Jul 12, '23The government and the Bank of England are again calling today for wage restraint to beat inflation - as if the whole cost of beating inflation must fall on wage-earning households13.7×1.4M11k3.9k505
7Jul 5, '24This is telling. Labour has not won. The Tories lost and the SNP have lost, whilst Reform and the Greens have won, and the LibDems have been exceedingly organised. But Labour has n12×1.2M11k2.3k853
8Jun 28, '24Nigel Farage being massively beaten up by the Question Time audience is the best Friday night television I have watched for ages. They are destroying him, one after another, making10.0×1M10k1.4k216
9Jul 20, '23Six per cent for essential public sector workers. 45% for King Charles. And people are meant to accept that?9.7×993k9.3k4.2k119
10Sep 20, '23If the price of something was £100 in 2021 and inflation was 10% in 2022 then the price went up to £110. If inflation is now about 7% that does not mean the price in 2023 is £107. 8.8×904k12k3.4k142
11Oct 28, '23I awoke in the night, panicking about Gaza. For me (and I suspect millions of others) that was just a nightmare. In Gaza is it an unimaginable reality. No one can ignore what Hamas7.4×755k11k2.7k132
12Feb 2, '23Who has caused inflation? Was it nurses, teachers and rail workers? Or might it have been Shell? What do you think?6.6×676k12k2.4k34
13Sep 1, '24Do they really think we are stupid enough to believe this?6.5×665k14k2.7k106
14Jul 29, '23I hope so…..6.3×647k9.3k1.1k18
15Dec 20, '22The time’s come to admit the NHS in England has ceased to function as a proper emergency service. That’s not because of strikes: it’s why there are strikes. It’s failed because of 5.8×593k15k4k59
16Jul 23, '24Why is Israel at the Olympics when the ICJ has ruled it to be an apartheid state? South Africa was banned for that reason for more than two decades. What is the difference?5.1×520k19k6.2k270
17Mar 10, '23So, this afternoon the BBC gives in to fascists over Gary Lineker’s support for asylum seekers and on David Attenborough’s desire to highlight the impact of climate change. Fascism4.8×497k15k3.8k41
18Dec 21, '22Steve Barclay is playing the ‘how can NHS staff live with the harm they’ll be causing by striking?’ card today. He forgets that those staff live daily with the risk government dail4.7×486k12k2.9k23
19Nov 11, '23Hate brought out a few hundred. The love of people brought out hundreds of thousands. The contrast could not be greater. What do you say now Rishi Sunak?4.5×457k9.7k2.5k36
20Feb 5, '23I was accused on @lbc this morning of being left-wing by someone I think a far-right Tory MP. I agreed. I am left of centre. The difference is he cares about a few people and I car3.8×390k8.9k1.2k12
21Jul 27, '23The PPE scandal has produced not a single scalp. Farage has his bank account closed and heads tumble. As an indicator of how badly wrong this government’s assessment of risks might3.8×388k15k4.5k37
22Sep 12, '22I still don’t understand why the royal family did not ask people to donate money to charity instead of buying flowers. Food banks can do with all the help they can get right now.3.6×034k4.3k86
23Mar 12, '22Making sense of energy price rises is important. They’re going to be the cause of a lot of poverty in the UK, soon. So, I’ve been doing some analysis. What follow is a bit simplifi3.1×017k7.8k1.8k
24Apr 7, '22It’s been reported that the Chancellor’s wife, Akshata Murthy, is not tax domiciled in the UK. This has been confirmed by a statement issued on her behalf. But I think the statemen3.1×020k6.9k655
25Mar 10, '22My supplier of what they tell me is wholly renewable electricity told me it’s doubling its price to me today. But the price of producing renewable electricity has not changed right3.1×027k5.4k125
26Mar 2, '22I am old enough to remember Sue Gray. Anyone heard of her lately?2.9×030k3.5k35
27Mar 10, '23People trust Gary Lineker, Ian Wright and Alan Shearer. They don’t trust politicians. How do the government think they can win this battle?2.9×293k11k1.4k15
28May 6, '22Durham Police face a problem. They did not investigate the clear abuse by Dominic Cummings but now, to appease the Mail, they are re-investigating a closed case on Starmer. How is 2.8×025k4.9k70
29Apr 10, '22Rishi Sunak does not thing we need a government enquiry into furlough fraud, PPE fraud or Covid loan fraud, but he does want a government enquiry into who leaked his tax affairs. H2.5×022k4.8k56
30Dec 10, '22Rishi Sunak has claimed that to pay a 10% pay rise to all public sector employees will cost each household in the UK £1,000. This is what I call CRAp - which stands for a ‘complete2.4×016k5.5k798
31Jul 7, '22Chris Pincher is still an MP. He's not even suspended. Just think about that for a moment and realise just how bad our political system is.2.4×022k4.3k23
32Sep 7, '22Yesterday was bad. It was, in fact, very, very bad. If Johnson was a disaster, Truss has set out to be worse. I very much doubt that any prime minister has set out to create so man2.4×016k4.8k1.1k
33Oct 11, '22If you had a chance to quit the UK right now, would you?2.3×018k81660
34Jun 28, '22It took 20 police officers and an offensive law to remove one protestor from Whitehall. But not a single police officer saw an offensive Tory partying in Whitehall. Go figure.2.3×020k4.7k31
35Apr 8, '22I spent yesterday writing about the technicalities of domicile as they might impact Rishi Sunak’s wife. But that’s because her tax decisions cast doubt on his suitability for offic2.2×015k5k577
36Jun 10, '22There is a story doing the news rounds this morning that Sunak has cost the government £11 billion by failing to manage government interest rates properly. But the real story is mu2.2×013k4.9k1.4k
37Sep 18, '22If you want to know who is paying for the Queen’s funeral it is the magic money tree that the Treasury can always shake when it needs a little more cash. They could also use it to 2.1×018k4.3k71
38Aug 24, '22Those close to the government appear to be realising that UK households have no chance of surviving the coming winter with fuel bills forecast to rise to £4,000 or more a year. But2.0×013k4.9k652
39Sep 11, '22I had decided that I would leave aside discussion of the monarchy and its role in our society until the Queen’s funeral had passed. But now that her death is being used by politici1.9×012k3.8k1.2k
40Jul 13, '22The European Court of Human Rights was created by Sir Winston Churchill to counter the risk of fascism re-emerging in Europe. Now most Tory leadership candidates want the UK to wit1.8×014k4.4k70
41Mar 13, '21The image of male police fighting women whose simple wish is to be safe on the streets is not one that is going to be easy to erase from the memory.1.8×017k3.2k32
42Oct 25, '22So, Rishi Sunak appoints as Home Secretary a woman who dreams of deporting victims of torture to Rwanda. Any hope that his government might be credible vanished the moment he did t1.8×015k3.6k29
43Jul 29, '22Tories are arguing that wages must not rise as strongly as prices or we will get an inflationary spiral. But that’s ridiculous. All price increases add to the income of the compani1.8×012k4.2k656
44Nov 18, '22The government is going to pay our commercial banks £136 billion of excess interest over the next five years on money the government gifted to them using the QE process. That’s £271.7×010k5.2k364
45Jan 29, '22We witnessed an attempted coup this week. A prime minister who has very obviously broken the law on many occasions and who holds the people of this country in contempt sought to st1.7×012k3.6k403
46Oct 30, '22A week ago Johnson was still in the Tory leadership race. This weekend we know he cooperated with the Cabinet Secretary to suppress a massive security leak from Liz Truss’s phone s1.7×013k4k43
47Sep 20, '22Every time I see Truss give an interview I think that her Leeds comprehensive school did a staggering job getting her into Oxford1.7×017k1.5k65
48Dec 9, '21I am told this is on the Tube today1.7×013k3.6k177
49May 25, '22Allegra Stratton is still the only resignation, and she never went to a party.1.6×017k2.2k14
50Sep 15, '22Kwasi Kwarteng thought long and hard about all the people who needed help in this country. And he picked on bankers.1.6×014k3.3k31
51Mar 26, '22There is a growing and numbing realisation of just how bad Sunak's budget really was. Worse, he’s even now saying that there is nothing he can do about poverty. This is a long thre1.6×011k3.2k710
52Jan 2, '22The government has promised 7,000 HEPA filtration units to schools. There are 24,000 schools. Assume 14 classrooms on average. Two units are required per classroom. That is 672,0001.6×011k3.9k78
53Oct 11, '22Kwarteng may have no choice but reverse all his tax cuts before the weekend to stabilise the pound. If that happens I can’t see how he and Truss can survive into next week.1.6×014k2.5k51
54Aug 8, '22The price of oil is falling steadily in world markets. It’s now under $100 a barrel. Have you noticed the impact of this on pump prices as yet? No, me neither.1.5×012k2.9k25
55Sep 23, '22I hope more than 54 Tory MPs are sending in their letters of no confidence in Liz Truss tonight1.5×014k2k18
56Jun 23, '22It would seem that there are a lot of very confused politicians in the UK who think inflation is caused by employees asking for pay rises when the inflation we’ve got has been caus1.5×012k3.4k104
57Aug 3, '22How many people lived in fear in the summer of 1914, dreading what might happen? Come to that, what about 1939? People must have known that they were living on a precipice then, ju1.5×010k2.7k831
58Jan 31, '22So, not a single Cabinet Minister has resigned in protest at what happened today. That makes each and every one of them complicit with Johnson.1.5×014k2.2k5
59Jun 24, '22What still amazes me is that some people voted Tory yesterday.1.5×015k1.2k9
60Jul 25, '22Since 1945 the Tories have been in office for 48 years. They repaid debt in just four of them. The total they repaid was just £7 billion in current prices, which is utterly insigni1.5×011k3.6k188
61Mar 6, '22On Friday the wholesale price of domestic energy was nine times what it was a year ago. But the cost of production of energy hasn’t changed. The entire excess is due to profit taki1.4×011k3.6k71
62Sep 13, '22Why doesn’t inheritance tax have to be paid on the Queen’s private estate? Why should there be one rule for the monarch and another for everyone else? Shouldn’t a constitutional mo1.4×013k2.5k46
63Oct 26, '22Yesterday I suggested that Sunak was likely to fail. The thread in question got read a lot. Perhaps that was because as the day went on it became increasingly apparent that Sunak’s1.4×011k2.8k461
64Oct 4, '22I think my life would be better without Suella Braverman in it, and strongly suspect I am not alone1.4×015k1.4k7
65Mar 30, '22Why do 35% of people in this country still think voting for the Tories makes sense? What is wrong with them, because something has to be?1.4×012k1.7k12
66Oct 9, '22Detesting the Tories is not a sign of nastiness, as they are claiming. It’s the sentiment of a caring human being who cannot stand Tories loathing most people in this country.1.4×012k2.3k25
67Apr 17, '22Tories have a very odd view of the world. Labour must not oppose. Bishops must not talk about the teachings of Christ. The SNP must not mention independence. Lawyers must not uphol1.4×011k2.7k38
68Dec 12, '21On Tuesday 100 Tory MPs who are in favour of taking away our right to protest will be voting against their own government for the right to not wear a mask. You cannot make politica1.3×011k3k46
69Sep 23, '22Someone earning £1 million a year saves £42,500 in tax - way above the national average wage - thanks to Kwarteng cutting the top rate of tax. Staggering1.3×010k3k54
70Oct 19, '22Truss calls £500 a month mortgage increases ‘facing up to economic reality’. I really do not think the country views it like that.1.3×012k2.1k36
71Nov 13, '22Jeremy Hunt is saying we cannot max out the national credit card this morning. This is total nonsense. There is no national credit card. Instead it’s the job of government to make 1.3×09.4k3.1k156
72Nov 3, '22If your mortgage is £100,000 that Bank of England have just signalled they want to take at least £750 a year out of your annual income to punish you for inflation. How does that ma1.3×09.9k2.6k74
73Aug 7, '22I’ve read the morning papers and listened to the political commentary. And what gets me is that it seems almost no one appreciates that when between 25% and 50% of all people in th1.3×011k2.6k47
74Jan 4, '22I am struggling to get my head around this. The NHS is on a war footing. The military is being called in. But pubs are open, mask-wearing is not being enforced and NHS staff are st1.3×010k2.8k34
75Jan 28, '22I never thought I would live through a coup, but that’s what seems to be happening. What looks like a conspiracy between the government and police is perverting the course of justi1.3×011k2.5k37
76Oct 31, '22I am so fed up with Tory MPs claiming that people seeking asylum in this country are doing so illegally. Everyone has a legal right to seek asylum in the UK.1.3×09.8k2k18
77Dec 15, '22I am so bored of hearing politicians saying that the country is being held to ransom by trade unions whose pay demands cannot be afforded when that is not true. A thread…..1.3×09.9k2.5k359
78Mar 12, '22It’s estimated that we’ll paying £38 billion more for energy in the next year but the cost of producing that energy is hardly going to change. So the question is, who is profiting,1.2×09.8k2.9k55
79Oct 17, '21Priti Patel told Marr that those with Covid are not as sick now as they were. That, with all respect to her, doesn’t offer much comfort to the 1,000 or so people who died from Covi1.2×010k2.4k18
80Aug 6, '22There is one very simple way to create growth in the UK. It is to redistribute money from those who do not need or spend significant parts of what they earn (the wealthy) and give 1.2×010k2.3k95
81Oct 20, '22It is a staggering fact that this government refuses to let unions use online ballots and yet the next PM may well be chosen by an online ballot of Tory members. That is total hypo1.2×09.6k2.8k25
82Sep 21, '22There is one very simple way to create growth in the UK. It is to redistribute money from those who do not need or spend significant parts of what they earn (the wealthy) and give 1.2×09.4k2.3k56
83Jun 13, '21I am ashamed to live in a country that has Boris Johnson as its prime minister1.2×011k1.2k5
84Dec 21, '21We paid an enormous price for Brexit to solve Tory party infighting. Now we are going to do so again over Covid.1.2×010k2.1k26
85Mar 21, '22Sunak is going to force you into food and fuel poverty, make you stop spending on everything you enjoy and put your job at risk and all because he’s building up an election war che1.1×09.1k2.7k42
86Apr 12, '22The era of politics based on honour has gone. Johnson and Sunak have killed it. Now we need a written constitution to protect us from people like them ever abusing us again.1.1×09.6k2.2k12
87Jul 7, '22All I want is a decent, honest, functioning government in a decent, honest, functioning democracy. Is that too much to ask?1.1×010k1.3k3
88Oct 14, '22The man who failed to notice the threat of an epidemic whilst Health Secretary is taking over as Chancellor. What could go wrong?1.1×09.1k2.3k21
89May 17, '22The Queen’s been out twice since being unable to attend the opening of parliament last week. I can’t help but think she did not want to read out her government’s appalling legislat1.1×011k1k12
90Oct 8, '22The Tories are plotting to instal Rishi Sunak as PM in place of Truss. He would be the fifth Tory PM in six years. When will they realise it is not who is leader that matters? It’s1.1×09.1k2k47
91May 3, '22I’ve a suggestion for the PM. Require that private landlords sell their properties to tenants who have been in occultation for more than 3 years at a 25% discount to market prices.1.1×09.3k1.9k38
92Nov 6, '22When @bbclaurak starts her programme asking the question ‘can we afford to tackle the climate crisis?’ you realise that she really is not serious about finding answers.1.1×09.4k1.8k28
93Oct 29, '22I am so tired of having to live with the depravity of the Tories1.1×09.6k1.4k13
94Aug 19, '22Rishi Sunak has claimed tonight ‘he has a background in business’. He has a background in hedge funds. Professional gambling is not the same as business. The worrying thing is he d1.1×08.8k2.2k31
95Jul 17, '22I love it that Kemi Badenoch likes talking about her (I suspect brief) time flipping burgers and forgets to mention her time at Coutts and The Spectator. Very selective memory in p1.0×09.2k1.7k23
96Sep 27, '22Quietly pleased for saying I was not happy to have to debate with a representative of the Institute of Economic Affairs live on air on the BBC at lunchtime and to question the opac1.0×09.2k1.7k44
97Apr 21, '22I’m old enough to remember when the Met couldn’t find any evidence to suggest there were parties in Downing Street during lockdown1.0×09.7k1.5k10
98Jul 5, '22Worth remembering that those resigning tonight are only doing so to save their own skins. There is not a hint of honour about any of them.1.0×09.5k1.5k3
99Jul 5, '22I’m feeling like a junkie in need of another resignation1.0×011k7858
100Jul 12, '22I used to dislike the Tories. But witnessing this leadership campaign it’s very hard not to loathe all that they stand for.1.0×09.6k1.2k7
101Jun 4Out now: ‘What is Economics For? Rethinking a Discipline in Crisis’ Reflecting on the work of 50 thinkers who have influenced me over the 50 years since I went to university to stu0.3×28k25615362

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