Because I have been a little distracted over the last few days I did not look at the Office for Budget Responsibility’s report on the
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Coronavirus and the private / public sector dynamic
I was asked of the weekend if I might write a review of various aspects of the coronavirus pandemic, with a particular emphasis on taxation,
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Of course we face a coronavirus crisis: we lack a vision of a functioning economy underpinning a functioning society and so cannot tackle this issue
Rumour has it that Johnson’s announcement to the nation (England, in this case, let us not forget, for there are limits to his authority) today
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The government’s incompetence was all the result of a choice – to balance the books
In June this year an epidemiologist told me that unless the government was very incompetent there should be no second wave of coronavirus. It is
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Boris Johnson did not look in the Piggy Bank to see if he had £100 billion for a ‘moonshot’ because the one thing he knew was that the money could be created to deliver the deal
The government announced its new ‘rule of 6’ yesterday. It is illogical. At the same time it announced it’s £100 billion ‘moonshot’ plan to deliver
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We’re not looking at a V shaped recovery from coronavirus any more: we’re looking at a downward spiral unless policy changes, and radically
The assumption of a strong economic recovery from coronavirus, on which the government has pinned so much hope, and on the basis of which the
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Landlords need to smell the absence of coffee right now
As Larry Elliott has noted in the Guardian this morning, the September rent payment day (businesses usually pay their rent quarterly) might be particularly stressful
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The next U-turn will be on Covid-19
Boris Johnson has now proved himself capable of U-turning on his own legislative decisions, passed only months ago. In that case it has to be
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The excluded: people are not going to take the devastation the government is choosing to deliver lying down
This video is fantastic. And in political and economic terms both deeply worrying, and a portent of things to come. Rishi Sunak got some things
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