I recently took part in a discussion on my economic thinking with leading LibDems. The result was this podcast episode. The link is to Spotify.
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As the world descends into chaos central bankers are spectacularly failing to notice
Unless you ignore all news outlets you will have been as aware as I am of the horror playing out in Gaza and Israel. Just
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Arguments for relaxing bankers’ bonuses are bankrupt
As the Guardian has reported: The UK’s financial regulators have formally scrapped the banker bonus cap, removing one of the key reforms introduced by the
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The government claims the Tories have created 3.4 million new jobs in the UK since 2010. Are they sure they want to boast about this?
I have just posted this on Twitter: All data used is from the ONS or HMRC. I think what the government has created are remarkably
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Progress is delayed
I am aware of the time, not quite delivering as I would want on this blog at present. New papers in the Taxing Wealth Report
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There is a growing world rice crisis. What are we going to do about the humanitarian crisis that could flow from it?
The FT is reporting that the world is facing a rice crisis. As they note, the price of rice is rising very fast: That is
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We don’t need a No 10 summit on shoplifting. We need one on why the government is creating desperate poverty.
Downing Street is, apparently, going to hold a summit on shoplifting very soon. There is, apparently, no planned summit on 1 million children living in
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The problem of taxing wealth will have to be tackled locally, not globally
The EU Tax Observatory has a new report on tax evasion out this morning. Or, to be precise, they have a new report on tax
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Will Sunak keep us waiting?
According to polling by More in Common, most people want a change of government: They also want that change soon: The appetite for delay only
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