I feel as if I have spent much of the last year saying to people that now is not the time to raise taxes when
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Labour needs a big idea. But would it use one if it saw it?
I am well aware that nit al, readers of this blog are fans of the Guardian. And yet, beneath its veneer there is comment worth
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Companies House reform is heading in the right direction. Would you like to nudge it along?
In December the government announced a consultation on the future accounts filing arrangements with Companies House. The consultation document is here. Now I know that
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How to beat the deficit narrative by selling the idea of debt
In this final video in my series on quantitative easing, green QE and modern monetary theory, I moved towards the practical goals of policy. I
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Is the UK over?
This is the front page of The Sunday Times this morning: And yet the Unionists want to deny all this, and the free choice that
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Abandoning taxes to keep trucks moving is a profoundly costly error
As The Independent has reported: Taxes totalling £800m could go unpaid this year because of border checks on lorries being scaled back to avoid queues
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Why Green QE and MMT can co-exist
This is the third in a series of videos on why I think that the UK should move away from conventional quantitative easing towards what
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The power of words
If you want to feel better about today watch the video embedded in the link from this tweet: Up until a few years ago, National
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George Osborne’s attitude towards Scotland is not just colonial, it is that of a slaver
I have an opinion column in The National newspaper in Scotland this morning. My subject is George Osborne’s recent column in The Evening Standard, on
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