Someone with some political and economic experience sent me a note after they had read my blog on answering the question ‘How are you going
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The shocking possibility that US children might deserve healthcare and education
The July Tax Justice Network Taxcast
In the July 2018 Tax Justice Network Taxcast: We look at a proposal for a firewall to protect EU citizens from the Big Four accountancy
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The Treasury admit that tax does not fund government spending – as modern monetary theory suggests
Peter May has a fascinating post on the Progressive Pulse blog. As he notes: It was almost a year ago that I originally wrote to my
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Project Fear is now Project Fact and still we stumble onwards to chaos
I would love to think each day in the unfolding Brexit disaster will be the worst. But I know that is not true. After all,
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The right answer to ‘How are you going to pay for it?’
The question of ‘How are you going to pay for it?’ is now perennially used by journalists to challenge any proposal made by any politician
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EY, tax and reality are words that do not easily fit together
I was amused by a new report from Big 4 accountants EY on tax and the risk businesses face. Ignore for a fact that the
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The Office for Budget Responsibility does not do macroeconomics, as its Fiscal Sustainability Report painfully proves
I have been asked on Twitter whether I have read the new Office for Budget Responsibility report on the long-term fiscal sustainability of the UK,
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1945, manifestos, and a new Beveridge
A regular commentator on this blog, G Hewitt, noted yesterday that the Imperial War Museum notes on their website that: The Labour Party won the
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