The Guardian has reported this morning that: Momentum, the grassroots group set up to support Jeremy Corbyn, is directing its campaigning muscle into urging Labour
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Ten questions for Farage
I keep wanting to hear journalists ask Farage real questions about what the Brexit Party stands for. Instead of letting him rant about the failure
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HMRC’s errors on Scottish tax revenues suit Westminster: don’t expect any corrections any time soon
As The Times reports this morning: Taxpayers in Wales face having extra money taken out of their wages after being incorrectly labelled as Scottish. And
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The cause of populism in three graphs
These graphs all come from the Guardian this morning. They explain populism, even though there are flaws in the Gini coefficient methodology which tends to
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The risk of fascism in the UK is increasing by the day
I read the opinion polls and despair. How can 34% of people in this country think voting for Nigel Farage is an answer to their
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What do we want? A Green New Deal. When do we want it? Now!
I share this from The Observer, who published it yesterday. As co-creator of the Green New Deal I claim the right to do so: The
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Does politics matter?
An old friend wrote to me this morning, and said: I increasingly worry less and less about politics and politicians, and what they decide, as
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The insult in buy-to-let gains is fuelled by the continuing injustice of our tax system
As the FT notes this morning: Buy-to-let landlords in London who sold up in 2018 made an average gain of £248,000, underscoring the growth of
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Economics is still teaching dogma and techniques wholly unsuited to real world need
Joris Tieleman, a PhD Candidate at Erasmus University Rotterdam, writing in The Conversation has noted that: Economic thinking governs much of our world. But the discipline’s
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