As Larry Elliott has noted in the Guardian, Labour appears to be committing itself to a financial transaction tax for use on the financial services
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Xavier Bettel is the prime minister of Luxembourg. And yesterday he got angry. Superficially he was angry with Boris Johnson, who had refused to take
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I have been asked how I would fund the Green New Deal. This is a response I prepared to support some thinking a little while
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As Labour List has noted this morning: Labour conference is set to be dominated by the campaign pushing for the party to adopt a ‘Green
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This pst is by Prof Sean Danaher and was on Progressive Pulse last week. It is far too good not to share a little more
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I loved this, said by Alexei Sayle on Radio 4 last week: Austerity is the idea that the global financial crash of 2008 was caused
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It’s not my job to criticise those seeking to tackle tax avoidance, and I won’t. But I can say when they need to improve their
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This is an analysis of today’s Observer poll from Opinium via Flavible.com: I do not trust many polls, and Opinium seems to produce much stronger Tory results
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I share this blog published by the Fair Tax Mark, of which I am a director, this morning: Research funding from Luminate to enable Fair
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