I appreciated this tweet: Keir Starmer’s aggressive British nationalism means he’s pledged to breach the Good Friday Agreement. British people may not have noticed. But
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The Tories just don’t care
I noted an article by Frances Ryan in the Guardian yesterday in which she referred to a YouGov survey that sought opinion from people in
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Banks are deeply misunderstood, including by bankers and, most especially, it would seem, by the FT
There is a very telling article in the FT this morning that was posted in reaction to Itay’s new windfall tax on bank profits. This
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This country does not need a neoliberal Labour Party
I posted this thread on Twitter this morning: I am aware that some people here are quite upset by my comments about Labour. They presume
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Why has government funding for renewables run into a brick wall?
As the FT notes this morning: Swedish developer Vattenfall spent years developing plans for almost 140 turbines across a 725km-squared patch [of the North Sea
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Land value taxation is a non-starter when it comes to serious tax reform
A commentator going by the name of Joe Polito has posted on the blog this morning suggesting that a desirable tax reform would be to
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The House of Lords really does not need Mark Littlewood
I have, for well over a decade, met Mark Littlewood, the director of the Institute for Economic Affairs, on a regular basis. That is because
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A feast of fools
My old friend Alan Simpson, who was a Labour MP when we first met, sent me this over the weekend. I thought it worth sharing,
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We need tax reform. What we do not need is tax reform to perpetuate the status quo.
The FT has an editorial this morning that it says signals the start of a series to be published by it on tax reform. Since
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