Every now and again the Guardian slips through a Modern Monetary Theory editorial. Today is one of those days. It begins: A great deal of
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The government is going for freeports – without any legislative basis for doing so, and despite the fact that they’re known to be hubs for illegal activity
Earlier this year Rishi Sunak undertook a consultation on freeports. I submitted extensive evidence. So did others. I could not see an objective observer who
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The Joy of Tax – an endorsement
I don’t get emails like this every day, I admit: “The Joy of Tax” is absolutely brilliant! I’m only on Chapter 3, and I’ve already
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The best entrepreneurs in this country are entirely unsung, whilst the wrong people are rewarded
The FT has an editorial today on the taxation of private equity and hedge funds. It comes in response to the review of capital gains
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Corruption in the medical-political complex
The British Medical Journal had an editorial last week that pulled no punches. It began by saying: Politicians and governments are suppressing science. They do
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Why is the left so hung up about modern monetary theory?
I had this article in the most recent edition of The Chartist (no, I had not heard of it either). They commissioned in response to
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Why is HMRC so sure that there is more tax to collect from multinationals?
The Financial Times has suggested this morning that: The British government has launched a crackdown on multinationals suspected of wrongly reducing their UK tax bills
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Right now it might look like we are facing an existential crisis. But it is so much more than that.
This was written as a Twitter thread, but apart from imposing a constraint on the length of each paragraph it could have also been a
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Redefining dad dancing, videos, and such things
There have to be moments light relief. This was one, last night: That was Bill Bailey redefining dad dancing in style, and with clear ability,
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