I will be on the Jeremy Vine Show on BBC Radio 2 today at 1pm discussing the fact that HM Revenue & Customs is shutting
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Israel and its allies – including the UK – are going to deliver a planned famine in Gaza
The IPC describes itself as follows in its website: The Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) is an innovative multi-partner initiative for improving food security
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Irish people see their history in Palestinians’ eyes
This Tweet includes words that I think to be important from the Irish Taoiseach (prime minister): I think he really does reflect Irish feeling when
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The introduction to the Taxing Wealth Report 2024
Introduction Taxing Wealth Report published I have already published a short summary of the Taxing Wealth Report 2024. However, the report also needed an introduction,
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Inflation tumbles, and still we wait for signs that the Bank of England might respond
As the Office for National Statistics reported at 7.00 this morning: The Consumer Prices Index (CPI) rose by 3.4% in the 12 months to February
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The depravity of Rachel Reeves’ Mais lecture
It seems that everyone with time on their hands and nothing constructive to think about is talking about Rachael Reeves Mais lecture speech to be
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Are HM Revenue & Customs intent on making the right amount of tax as hard as possible?
One of my arguments in the Taxing Wealth Report 2024 was that HM Revenue & Customs should be transformed to make the UK tax system
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We need an economics that prioritises the needs of people
I have written this morning about the costs that will arise as a result of our need to make good on decades of underinvestment in
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Lessons from Japan and the Bank of England: monetary policy cannot be used to control inflation
As the FT reports this morning: The Bank of Japan has ended an era of negative interest rates, raising borrowing costs for the first time
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