The Tories have announced that they want to end self-employed national insurance contributions. Two questions follow. The first is, why? This makes no sense. Why
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Why do politicians only talk about working people?
I put this short video out this morning. In it, I express my surprise that our politicians only seem to think that what they call
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The LibDems tax proposals needed a lot more thought. Good in parts, is the best that can be said.
The LibDems have been the first to release their manifesto for this election. To support it, they have published their ‘full costing’, because woe betide
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The Bank of England is stagnating the economy. Unless Rachel Reeves demands a change in their policy she has not got a hope of delivering any of Labour’s promises
In the real world, rather than in that of elections, there is data in employment out this morning. The Office for National Statistics has published
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Politicians need convictions
In my main YouTube video for this morning, I argue that neoliberalism has killed conviction-based politics. The audio version is here: This is the transcript:
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It is time to end the massive government subsidy that’s being paid to the UK’s commercial banks
It is a strange moment when an idea that you have promoted suddenly moves towards the political centre stage, even if Nigel Farage is the
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