It is not very often that I will praise French President Macron in this blog, but as the BBC has reported: French President Emmanuel Macron
Read the full article…
Rachel Reeves: a tale of continuing incompetence
As the FT has reported: Rachel Reeves has vowed to “invest, invest, invest” as she prepares to ramp up borrowing to fund a multibillion-pound capital
Read the full article…
Finding the Money
Stephanie Kelton’s new film, Finding the Money, is finally available to rent. You can do so for £2.99 from here. The film’s website is here:
Read the full article…
Tackling inequality requires an increase in taxes on wealth
According to the Guardian yesterday: A failure by Rachel Reeves to back a “windfall of wealth taxes” in her budget risks fuelling the rise of the populist
Read the full article…
What’s the real reason why we tax?
Most people assume that we tax to fund government spending, but we don’t in economies like that we have in the UK. Instead, we have
Read the full article…
Blogged out
I am blogged out today, by which I mean, I need a break. I noted a commentator saying this morning that he did not know
Read the full article…
Do you care? That’s the political question for 2024
Left versus right seems like deeply antiquated politics from another era to me. The fight between labour and capital makes no sense when we have
Read the full article…
Starmer’s new climate policy is unforgivable
The Sun reports this morning that: The PM is announcing a £22billion cash injection over 25 years for “game-changing” carbon capture technology in Merseyside and Teesside. It also notes
Read the full article…
When we have well-funded palliative and social care, we can discuss assisted dying, but we’re not there yet
It was only a few weeks ago that the Telegraph reported that: The state of end-of-life care in the UK means the country is not
Read the full article…