According to the Guardian: Keir Starmer has committed to pursuing a major rewrite of the Brexit deal with the EU if Labour is elected, citing
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The only thing going up in the UK is economic rents – and that is the road to ruin
The destruction of the UK economy continues. This morning the FT has reported that: Residential rents in August jumped by 12 per cent on average
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Labour tribalism and and the illogical belief that Starmer’s party is anything but deeply neoliberal
I got an interesting insight into the mindset of a surviving Labour Party member yesterday. My old friend, as that is what the person I
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Something to look forward to
What is it that makes a place attractive to live in?
As the FT notes this morning: The income gap between Londoners and the rest of the UK population has hit a record high, according to
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Our whole pension edifice is built on sand, and no one seems to be paying much attention to that fact
There is an almost incoherent discussion of pensions and the merits of the triple lock arrangement that currently protects the value of the state old
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Abolishing the VAT exemption for services supplied by private schools might raise £1.6 billion in tax a year
I have this morning published what might be one of the least surprising proposals to be made in the Taxing Wealth Report 2024. I suggest
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2:1 distractions
If I have done a little less blogging than usual this morning, there has been a good reason. Because my younger son was ill during
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There is no need to debate the triple lock for pensions: all the money needed to pay old age pensions can be found by making simple changes to the tax charges on the wealthy
There is much discussion in the media this morning about a supposedly temporary suspension of the pension triple lock. The triple lock was a George
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