The FT has an article this morning which asks: I have not read the piece in full. I did not need to do so to
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GB News
GB News continues to be a disgrace. I have been quite regularly invited to appear on this channel since it began. On every single occasion
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People are dying because of the impact of inflation. That is by government choice, and is not a necessity.
The news round is, once again, dominated by small-minded and vindictive petty squabbling this morning, with Suella Braverman in the lead. Meanwhile, in the real
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Sunak heads for the the gutter as Packham takes the lead: a tale of two climate interventions
I watched two people talk about climate change on television yesterday. One was Rishi Sunak. The other was Chris Packham. One of them told the
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Labour only needs one Brexit policy – which is to build the pathway to rejoining. And it won’t do it.
According to the Guardian: Keir Starmer has committed to pursuing a major rewrite of the Brexit deal with the EU if Labour is elected, citing
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The only thing going up in the UK is economic rents – and that is the road to ruin
The destruction of the UK economy continues. This morning the FT has reported that: Residential rents in August jumped by 12 per cent on average
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Abolishing the VAT exemption for services supplied by private schools might raise £1.6 billion in tax a year
I have this morning published what might be one of the least surprising proposals to be made in the Taxing Wealth Report 2024. I suggest
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There is no need to debate the triple lock for pensions: all the money needed to pay old age pensions can be found by making simple changes to the tax charges on the wealthy
There is much discussion in the media this morning about a supposedly temporary suspension of the pension triple lock. The triple lock was a George
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We are heading for a mortgage crisis of the Bank of England’s making
As the FT has noted this morning, the number of mortgages in arrears has reached a seven-year high. And it has not just crept up,
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