I look at the world through the eyes of the least well off, even if I am aware that my own circumstances are more financially fortunate.
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Today’s broadcasting
I am at present scheduled to broadcast twice on budget matters today. I will be on Radio 2, alongside my usual co-interviewee Comrade Mark Littlewood
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The Guardian picks up my research on 70 years of party spending
Larry Elliott, writing in the Guardian this morning, has picked up on my research on seventy years of party spending in the UK and that
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Two out of three promises broken and the third impossible to achieve: Osborne’s sorry tale of woe
As the FT notes this morning, less than a year after being returned to office on the back of his supposed economic competence George Osborne
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Are KPMG really masters of the universe?
My friend Atul Shah of Suffolk Business School asks questions of KPMG’s latest annual report: The growing size and influence of Big 4 global accounting
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26% of the increase in the UK’s wealth from 2000 to 2015 went to the top 1% in society
The new Oxfam report to which I have already referred this morning includes an appraisal of who benefitted from the the increase in the UK’s
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Ending the Era of Tax Havens: Oxfam hits the nail on the head
Oxfam has issued a new report entitled Ending the Era of Tax Havens. As it says in the introduction: The gap between the rich and
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Tax in the 2016 Budget
I write the following for the new pre-Budget report from The EREP network — Economists for Rational Economic Policies – of which I am a
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I agree with Paul Mason: Osborne really should be adopting People’s QE
Paul Mason has written this in the Guardian this evening: In the face of [the current economic crisis], Osborne should design a Tory version of
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