Summer must have arrived. Crazy ideas are in the air. I just finished writing a blog about the wholly inappropriate and regressive tax that the
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A flat tax on the over 40s to pay for care would be deeply regressive and completely unfair
The Guardian does this morning make reference to a government plan to create a new tax. Given the Conservative Party’s reluctance to tax this is,
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The cost of government borrowing is falling – which gives even less reason than ever for the government not to spend now
The cost of government borrowing is falling….and that’s good news. The debt obsessives have less to obsess about when the amount of interest the UK
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I keep asking ‘why?’ It’s the only thing to do to ask when no reasonable explanation for the government’s behaviour is possible
I was out and about yesterday, enjoying time with my younger son. We were both pleased to see face masks in almost universal use in
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The SNP has to commit to the Scottish pound if it really believes in an independent Scotland
I made a fleeting appearance on BBC Scotland last night. I was invited to comment on the government’s claim that it is only the supposedly
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Why is the government going to leave millions of people unemployed in a bizarre effort to repay the money people would really rather leave in its safe-keeping?
I posted this on Twitter: Net of QE the gov’t might borrow £70bn from those who want to save with it this year. Every year
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Systemic racism and tax justice: the Taxcast for July 2020
In this episode of the Tax Justice Network’s monthly podcast, the Taxcast we bring you part 2 on how tax justice can help address systemic racism in
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Why we need a national debt: a video explanation
If the popular political narrative was to be believed then the national debt would rank high on the list of threats to our well being.
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The Nine on BBC Scotland this evening
I’ll share this tweet I’ve just recorded for The Nine on BBC Scotland at 9pm saying Scotland would be completely able to deliver all the
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