A Tory MP has suggested the solution to the NHS crisis is to increase National Insurance. It is staggering how wrong such a person can be. That is because there are three solutions to the NHS crisis. The first is to reduce demand. The best way, by far, to do that is to improve the
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If you are in Edinburgh on Wednesday there’s this gig: The functioning version is here.
I find headlines like this so boring: I stress, Owen Smith has said much the same thing of late except he was going to use the money to fund the NHS. And both are wrong, so I am not being partisan. I reiterate something I explain in The Joy of Tax. This is that a
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What, precisely, fair taxation might be is a question often asked, and not always well answered. Given I am talking about it tomorrow it is an issue that I need to consider at some time between now and then because in the time I have available to talk on the subject the many possible directions
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Andrew Simms, Vicky Chick and I will be discussing the above subject at the Hay Festival. Details are: Event 302 • Wednesday 1 June 2016, 8.30pm • Venue: Starlight Stage Creeping climatic upheaval and corrosive global inequality are like two threads pulling apart civilisation’s fabric. To survive and thrive, we face an unprecedented challenge of rapid
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The Luxemburger Wort summed me up rather well today: The reference is to the talk I gave yesterday.
I am giving a keynote address to the Political Studies Association conference in Brighton this evening on Politics and the Good Life. These are the speaking notes. The usual rules apply: click on the image and then click on the resulting page on that page to get a large, readable, image:
Some people seem to like the iThoughts mind maps I write for lectures. Now I am back home this is the one for the Orlando talk given yesterday. The usual rules apply: click on the image to bring it up in a separate screen and then again to enlarge:
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