The prospect of Trump’s tariffs creating significant costs for the UK was discussed on Sophy Ridge’s programme on Sky News last night. Amongst those discussing
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The rule of law and the far-right
The far-right is not happy about Marine Le Pen being found guilty of embezzlement yesterday. As the Guardian notes: Overnight, US president Donald Trump joined
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A month into retirement
Given that I had noted for some time before it happened that I was going to retire from employment on 28th February this year, it
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The problem with left-wing think tanks
I wrote the long note that follows because of something that Gary Stevenson had to say in a recent video, coupled with my own reaction
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AI might force professionals to profess
In a comment made during an interview about his new autobiography, Bill Gates is reported to have said: Artificial intelligence will likely replace doctors, teachers
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To get growth we must redistribute wealth
Growth is totally dependent upon people having enough money to spend. Without the redistribution of wealth in the UK, that is not going to happen.
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The battle for the rule of law is on
This is why we need the rule of law: If we lose the courts and the rule of law, this cannot happen. Trump knows that,
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The benefits of the redistribution of wealth
Martin Wolf is facing reality this morning, which is something he is, to be fair, more willing to do than most economic commentators. In an
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LVT is no panacea – but can be one of a number of taxes required on land ownership
I was asked by a commentator to summarise my approach to land value taxation yesterday. I asked ChatGPT to summarise my own work on this,
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