This Tweet from me was popular yesterday: The point is really important, and suggests a real lack of economic understanding on Starmer’s part.
Thames Water’s auditors have concerns about it being a going concern but will our politicians be any better custodians of our water supply now they believe that they’re impoverished?
In a report published earlier this year, I suggested that the English water companies were what I described as ‘environmentally insolvent’. By that I meant
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Why we do not need a wealth tax – but need to tax the income earned from wealth a great deal more
Many organisations on the left of UK politics are now calling for wealth taxes. The Taxing Wealth Report 2024 does not do so. It is
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When only discombobulated will do
I always wonder whether using the word discombobulated is fair. It does, after all, have little common usage. It is cumbersome. And it usually refers
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