In this morning’s video, I argue that instead of picking on children in poverty and pensioners needing support with fuel bills to pay the price
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If Rachel Reeves wants more money she needs to crack down on small business tax evasion
The National Audit Office (NAO) published a report this morning that says: The UK is losing billions of pounds a year in revenue due to
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Neoliberalism was the underlying cause of the Grenfell disaster
Musing on what to say about the Grenfell inquiry has been quite hard. Nothing anyone can say can take away the trauma of what happened
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Of course the government is ignoring Covid: to do otherwise would require that it admit that society exists
The Guardian has reported this morning that: One in five patients registered to a pair of GP surgeries in the north of England have long
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Rachel Reeves’ new wheeze: punishing those who live in social housing with above inflation rent rises
This is in the FT this morning: UK chancellor Rachel Reeves is planning to raise social rents by more than inflation for the next 10
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No one has a right to limited liability
In this morning’s video I note that we’ve had limited liability companies in their current form for about 170 years now, but no one back
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We will all pay a very high price for Rachel Reeves’ vanity
As the Guardian reports this morning: Rachel Reeves is planning to raise taxes, cut spending and get tough on benefits in October’s budget amid Treasury
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There is nothing in a tax haven
In this morning’s video I address the topic that, long ago, really got this blog going, which is tax havens. I note that I keep
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Never forget Labour’s ugly biases
As the FT noted a couple of days ago: Minouche Shafik, the president of Columbia University in New York, has resigned following months of criticism
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