This post is the third of the three that relate to the economic ideas underpinning the Taxing Wealth Report 2024. The first was on tax
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Labour’s ideological vacuum
As Larry Elliott has noted in The Observer today: After last week’s emasculation of its green prosperity plan, [Labour’s] storyline has changed. It now reads:
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The cappuccino economy: a metaphor for our times
Clive Parry wrote in the comments on this blog yesterday that: We need to reverse the line argument “We can only have public services if
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Pragmatism as an exercise in hearing the music
I listened to an interview Lewis Goodall did with union leader Mick Lynch yesterday and liked a lot of what Mick Lynch had to say.
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‘Revenue’ means to come back. Tax revenue quite literally recovers money already spent
I noticed part of an old post of mine being cited on Twitter yesterday. It was as follows: This is fascinating. What it shows is the
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UK politician’s credit card con-trick on the people of this country
I posted this thread on Twitter this morning: Quite extraordinarily, leading politicians, including Kier Starmer and Rachel Reeves have in the last few days returned
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Rishi Sunak’s tax for 2022/23: a Taxing Wealth Report 2024 case study
As has been widely reported in the media, Rishi Sunak’s tax return for 2022/23 was published yesterday. The data as published by his accountants has
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Accounting Streams in the Times Higher Education
I have an article in the Times Higher Education this week, co-authored with Prof Susan Smith of UCL: We begin the article saying: The rest
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Clive Lewis MP is standing up for the Green New Deal
I post this from Twitter (X) knowing that not everyone here can or wants to view that sire, but if you do, this is worth
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