I posted this as a Twitter thread this morning: I was asked recently to explain the fundamental differences between the economics of the right, centre-ground
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Labour’s tax plans are about using the cover of tax justice to deliver economic injustice – and that’s utterly unacceptable
Rachel Reeves is to announce a series of tax reforms planned by Labour if it were to win office in her speech to its conference
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Why is Labour stuck in gold-standard thinking era? And why does it want gold-standard era austerity that inevitably follows?
From the Sunday Times today: So, austerity here we come because Rachel Reeves has not noticed we have a fiat currency as yet. Why is
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Green bonds are in fashion – to the tune of £100bn
I missed this headline a couple of days ago in the FT: They added: All those who now suggest that people would not want to
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Keir Starmer really should keep his word
A year ago Keir Starmer was saying this: Now, as I mentioned yesterday there is no mention at all of the Green New Deal in
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Is Evergrande another tipping point?
Evergrande is a name that most people do not know, but as the FT reports this morning: Investors in an Evergrande offshore bond say they
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An open letter to Sir Keir Starmer on public ownership
I share this letter sent yesterday by We Own It, an organisation I have had long had sympathy with, and do so with their permission:
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Has the winter of discontent begun?
That there might be a time when the anger of people at the suffering imposed upon them by this government might spillover has been a
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Starmer really does not get the Green New Deal – and won’t be delivering it
Keir Starmer’s vision pamphlet for the Fabian Society is deeply disappointing. This is the bit on what green investment might achieve: He adds this: What
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