I was asked to make this video by a friend who said they remained unsure as to what the difference between monetary and fiscal policy were, and were pretty
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It really is time the UK stopped behaving like the very worst form of tax haven
Everything is legal about what this company is offering in an advert that just popped up on the Guardian page I was looking at: And
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The power of a thread, or two, and a request
A week ago I noted that I had reached 70,000 Twitter followers, that number having increased by 10,000 over the previous ten months. Today I
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Currency is the collective power of the people
Congratulations to Jim Osborne, who comments regularly here, on what I think is his first article in The National newspaper in Scotland this morning. As
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The crime of indifference to the death of others arising as a consequence of your actions is one by which politicians should be judged
I suggested last week that all Conservative budgets have a habit of unravelling. Sunak’s has followed that seemingly inevitable path. Domestically, the nurses’ pay offer
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Why we should be paying the nurses much more than 1%
There’s a great deal of anger at the government for offering the nurses a 1% pay deal, which represents a real pay cut. In this video I
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The nurses’ pay award will be about much more than 1%. This is about deciding the type of society that we want in the post-Covid world
I have posted this thread on Twitter this morning: Why does Johnson wants to take on the nurses? Is this his Union fight; a version
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Pointless pain is what we’re enduring. And all for the sake of accepting that money is not a constraint on our potential, and never will be
There is no budget that does not unravel. Rishi Sunak’s has. It’s apparent there is much wrong with it, but the most significant was the
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The hidden stories within Sunak’s tax predictions suggest tough times for the self employed and big income tax increases after the next election
I have been playing with some of the figures in projected tax receipts published by the Office for Budget Responsibility yesterday (table 3.4 for the
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