As the Guardian has noted this morning: Tax increases will be needed across the board for Britain’s highest and lowest earners to bring down record levels
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The future of universities
I’ve spent long enough in education (fives years as an academic and about two decades as a school and HE governor) to have an opinion
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We need money to solve the problems we face but left and right are conspiring to deny that it’s readily available to address the problems that we face
This is the front cover of today’s Guardian: What it makes clear is that some face hunger as a result of increasing poverty in the
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The recession to come: does it have to be this way?
I have, for some time, been saying that the recession we are facing will be worse than the official forecasts suggest, precisely because those forecasts
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Scotland has to choose modern monetary theory
As is, I think, known by most readers if this blog, Larry Elliott, who has been the economics editor of The Guardian for decades, has
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What really matters?
Mark Cooney, who films and edits my YouTube videos, suggested we make a special for bank holiday Monday. As I am spending the day marking
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Real life Tories want tax increases
In the light of this morning’s debate on tax increases I will quote this thread from my friend and Tax Justice UK colleague Robert Palmer
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The message from Downing Street this morning is ‘bring back austerity’
I have already discussed the Treasury’s callous proposal to increase taxes on the wealthy without compensating tax cuts for those on lower incomes that features
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The big issue for the Sunday papers should not be that we might have some very small tax increases. The big issue is that these tax increases might increase unemployment even more. And the scandal is that this is not being said.
Tax is dominating the front pages of the Sunday Times and Sunday Telegraph this morning. As the latter says: Treasury officials are pushing for the largest
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