It is slightly scary that reports this morning suggest that Tony Blair and Richard Branson are both investing in efforts to overturn Brexit. Let me
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Demanding a passport for health care creates a new tax on those least able to pay
The Guardian reports this morning that: Patients could be told to bring two forms of identification including a passport to hospital to prove they are
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Shattering the stranglehold of falsehood that is sold as if it is economics
Geoff Tily of the TUC spoke at what looked to be an important event at the LSE last night to launch a new book called
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An end to silo governance
Andrew Baker is a political economist for whom I have a lot of time. Formerly at Queen’s University, Belfast he is now a professorial fellow
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Councils are increasing the pressure on tax dodging companies
I am pleased to share the following from Christian Aid in association with the Fair Tax Mark, of which I am a director: Multinationals with
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There May and corporation tax cuts: a policy to shower money on the well off and tax avoiders
Theresa May is playing a very silly boy’s game today. It is called anything you can do I can do better. So if Trump says
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Take no comfort from the OBR’s grim forecasts: they’ve always been too optimistic
According to the Guardian: The government’s independent economic watchdog will tear up its previous forecasts for the UK’s growth prospects as it gives its first
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What we need from the Autumn Statement is an end to massive subsidies for the well off
Let me put three suggestions before you. The first is that the UK is a massively divided society, with that trend having increased over time.
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The far-right are a threat to tax justice
The Observer will accurately reflect the concerns of many this morning. Post Brexit and Trump, the risk of far-right governments in France and the Netherlands
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