A comment was posted on the blog a couple of days ago in response to my discussion on what I call the fundamental pension contract.
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Funding the Green New Deal – Part Two
I have already published an explanation showing that the simple reallocation of the tax incentivised savings of UK taxpayers could more than fund the costs
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The G7 and tax – a sign of chaos to come?
This blog post by me was published on the Class think tank blog this morning. I am on the Class advisory board: I have watched
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Ethical accounting: The August Taxcast
In this month’s Tax Justice Network Taxcast, ethics and accountancy — yes they can go together! Plus: as Britain sinks into full crisis-mode over Brexit
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Funding the Green New Deal
I have done presentations in Edinburgh and Glasgow over the last two evenings on the Green New Deal. As is my usual practice, I prepared
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The SNP leadership needs to break the Union for the sake of all within it
Sitting in Edinburgh this morning it’s a little hard not to have a Scottish perspective on some of the events of the last day, especially
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Please sign this petition
I know it is said signing a petition changes nothing. I do not agree. When we are facing a government that will not accept the
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Monarchial power and violent crises
This article by Martyn Bennett, who is Professor of Early Modern History, Nottingham Trent University, is on The Conversation this morning and was, I thought well worth
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Time for Her Majesty to step up to the mark or for the Crown to depart the scene
It is now clear that Boris Johnson will seek to prorogue parliament to deny it the chance to debate alternatives to leaving the EU without
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