Neoliberal Myths
Friday, February 10th, 2023Once the Tax Research Glossary is up and running with sufficient entries to make it useful the next issue that I intend to tackle is
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Richard Murphy
Tuesday, July 4th, 2006Richard Murphy (66) was a practising chartered accountant for forty years and is now a political economist. He is Professor of Accounting at Sheffield University
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Are you a democrat, or not? That is the question that MMT poses, and which everyone needs to answer.
Tuesday, March 26th, 2024This comment/question was put up on the blog this morning by someone called Peter Rodd. I am presuming it is genuine: Enjoy your posts and
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No government can spend itself out of a recession
Wednesday, March 6th, 2024The Tories have always tried to deny that a government can spend itself out of a recession, but Jeremy Hunt has a much more bizarre
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What happens when the Prime Minister thinks that the electorate are extremists?
Saturday, March 2nd, 2024I posted this thread in Twitter last night: I then followed up with this: I am not sure that there is much to add barring
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Galloway’s win only signals more trouble to come
Friday, March 1st, 2024I am not celebrating George Galloway winning the Rochdale by-election. Galloway is a man who has never got over his days in student politics. He
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Might a party that thinks Badenoch is the answer to any question ever likely to be fit to govern again?
Tuesday, February 20th, 2024Kemi Badenoch went to the House of Commons yesterday to insult a man who is understandably upset at being sacked by her for doing something
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Standardised, neoliberal, ‘we have to accept the world as it is’ politics is leaving people with no choice when they are desperate for an alternative
Sunday, February 18th, 2024On a Sunday morning when the most obvious conclusion to draw about current political debate in the UK is that the two leading parties are
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The illness of Charles III
Tuesday, February 6th, 2024Do I need to mention the health of the King this morning when everyone else is? I think I do, because the news media are
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