Politics Home reported yesterday: In the Commons, SNP MP Stewart McDonald asked Mrs May “if a legislative consent motion will be required for the Scottish Parliament for the Great Repeal Bill”. The Prime Minister said: “There is a possibility that a legislative consent motion may be required in the Scottish Parliament, but that is a matter
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Six hundred high rise blocks in the UK may be unsafe. That may be 60,000 homes and, in all likelihood, 150,000 or more people who might need a new home. Last night Jon Snow asked on Channel 4 News how these new homes might be paid for. So let me answer the question, because the
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In the June 2017 Tax Justice Network Taxcast they ask – has the UK just had its first tax justice general election? Why was economic debate around the election so ill-informed? Are we seeing a popular shift towards tax justice in the UK and in the USA? Is this the beginning of the end of
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I was asked to answer some questions on tax havens yesterday. They’ll be used as part of the publicity for the Portuguese edition of my book Dirty Secrets: how tax havens destroy the economy. Because, however, they are just as relevant here in the UK I thought I would share them here. Q: There’s a lot
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The following blog has been reproduced, with permission, from the CommonSpace website. Common Space is run by Common Weal, which is a pro-independence think thank in Scotland, for whom I have a lot of respect. Their daily email is one of the pleasures of my late afternoon: whether you’re interested in Scotland or not I
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Grenfell Tower is not going away. It featured in the Queen’s Speech. The tragedy is very obviously abut something more than the personal disaster it represents for so many. It is about indifference to those who need social housing. It is about a contempt for standards. It is about a failure to accept all people
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Political economy is all about the study of the relationships of power that determine the distribution of resources in the economy. What does today’s Queen’s Speech say in this context? Most of all it says that this is a government without power. Everyone knows that the next two years will be dominated by Brexit legislation.
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Might I recommend an excerpt from Charles Adams’ unpublished book (“Peoplons, Charmons and the Strange One: the uncertain science of economics”) on “A Brief History of Money” that has a been published on the Progressive Pulse site today? Available here.
The FT has published an article this morning noting a report prepared by the government of the British Virgin Islands that notes that at least $1.5 trillion of assets are recorded in those islands. Three thoughts follow. First, as ever I take quite satisfaction that estimates keep moving in the direction of those provided by civil
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