From my Twitter feed this morning:–
There are some realists at the Bank of England
Reuters appears to be almost alone in reporting comments made by Bank of England Deputy Governor Dave Ramsden to the Treasury Select Committee yesterday. As
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Keir Starmer is right: this is absolutely the wrong time to be talking about tax rises
There is much comment all over the media about the need for tax rises at present. There is also much left-wing fury that, according to
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Four think tanks, and not a solution in sight
The UK’s leading think tanks believe that the least well off in our country should be paying more tax to pay the price for coronavirus
As the Guardian has noted this morning: Tax increases will be needed across the board for Britain’s highest and lowest earners to bring down record levels
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The future of universities
I’ve spent long enough in education (fives years as an academic and about two decades as a school and HE governor) to have an opinion
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We need money to solve the problems we face but left and right are conspiring to deny that it’s readily available to address the problems that we face
This is the front cover of today’s Guardian: What it makes clear is that some face hunger as a result of increasing poverty in the
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The recession to come: does it have to be this way?
I have, for some time, been saying that the recession we are facing will be worse than the official forecasts suggest, precisely because those forecasts
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