The FT has an article today which begins be saying: Chancellor Rishi Sunak has told Conservative MPs he wants to use his March Budget to
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The so-called Unionists are killing the very thing they supposedly cherish
George Osborne dropped an absolute clanger in The Evening Standard yesterday, when he wrote on Scottish independence. Having lamented that Northern Ireland’s departure from the
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Cummings thought that letting the vulnerable die was the way to beat Covid 19, and that still seems to be the policy
As the FT reports this morning: The … React-1 study led by Imperial College London concluded that prevalence of the [Covid] virus was “very high
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Alienation of the taxpayer is no way to run a tax system. HMRC should take note.Â
The FT has reported this morning that HM Revenue & Customs are refusing to extend the tax return submission deadline this year. As a result
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Hope is back
I watched Biden’s inauguration yesterday. And I believed Biden. I am under no illusions. I know how the Democrats are captured. I know neither he
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Would 35% of people tax evade if there was a wealth tax?
I was sent a press release saying this yesterday: A survey of 885 UK investors has revealed their sentiment towards the UK government’s proposed “wealth tax”.
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So, what is MMT?
This was published via Bloomberg Markets yesterday, and I thought it worth sharing: THAT'S NOT MMT In today's @Markets newsletter, I wrote a very simple
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Does this blog need guest posts?
The question was raised yesterday in a comment on the blog as to whether I was willing to accept guest posts from those who have
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There is a post-Covid society to shape, and it is not like the one that existed before we went into this
As the FT notes this morning: US companies are sitting on trillions of dollars in cash that they borrowed to survive the coronavirus shock of
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