This post was nearly complete yesterday when the MacBook on which I was writing it failed. I am told that when it is repaired, most
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Gary Stevenson is right: we need tax expertise to tackle wealth
Gary Stevenson said on his YouTube channel yesterday that: “Correct implementation on tax policy is a job of experts and government and civil service. It
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Reform, migration and Christianity
As the Guardian noted yesterday: Reform UK has engaged in a war of words with the Church of England over the party’s plans to deport all
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Minouche Shafik is not going to save Labour’s economic policy
In 2018, Minouche (or, more formally, Nemat) Shafik wrote in an article entitled ‘A New Social Contract’, published by the International Monetary Fund, of which
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Wealth series 13: Should the UK bring back rent controls?
We talk about food poverty and fuel poverty, but almost never about rent poverty. Yet rent is now the biggest driver of inequality in Britain.
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This is what terrorism looks like
This image is from Twitter, yesterday: As The Guardian reported: Five people have been arrested at a protest in London where a group of masked
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Having power and failing to tell the truth
I posted this on Twitter this morning: Starmer is enabling fascism through his cowardice and acceptance of Farage’s framing. He has power and will not
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Beating fascism is the task ahead
A US-based writer called Chris Armitage has noted in his Substack that: Once fascists win power democratically, they have never been removed democratically. Not once.
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Which economy should we manage, and why?
The UK doesn’t just have one economy: it has three. They are the real economy, the sustainable economy, and the monetary economy. However, the government
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