I have this morning published the next in my series of proposals that will make up the Taxing Wealth Report 2024. In this latest note, I
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Edinburgh, tonight
I am travelling to Edinburgh this morning. I am scheduled to be on Debate Night, BBC Scotland’s equivalent of Question Time, this evening. That does
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Inflation: the good, the bad and the ugly news
As the Office for National Statistics has reported this morning with regard to inflation in September: The Consumer Prices Index including owner occupiers’ housing costs
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Wages are finally rising faster than infaltion – and so the Bank of England sends out warning signals of new rate rises
As the Office for National Statistics has reported this morning: Annual growth in regular pay (excluding bonuses) was 7.8% in June to August 2023, similar
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The number of NHS beds has fallen despite the government promising to increase them
I think this tweet and the linked report in The Times from yesterday says all that we need to know about this government’s attitude towards
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The government has abandoned a new law that would have massively reduced the risk to savers from investing in UK companies – because the companies did not want to stop the abuse it would have prevented
The Tory government has backtracked on another of its promises today. I accept that for most people, the abandonment of a commitment to enhance corporate
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Taxing Wealth Report 2024: Reforming inheritance tax agricultural property relief might raise £1.0 billion of tax a year
I have this morning published the next in my series of proposals that will make up the Taxing Wealth Report 2024. In this latest note, I continue
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Politics v political parties
As I have already noted here, I was out birdwatching yesterday. These occasions are rarely, however, wholly free of debate about the politics of the
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Viewpoint: C’mon the broken people
I mentioned recently that I might post occasional articles by people other than me on the blog if I thought them worth sharing here. This
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