The Taxing Wealth Report 2024 suggests that wealth in the UK might be undertaxed by up to £170 billion a year when compared to income
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It’s time the government really woke up to the renewed threat from Covid
As the FT notes this morning: Health authorities in England are bringing forward the latest Covid-19 booster vaccination programme to counter a potentially dangerous sub-variant
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Audit reform is being delayed, yet again. Might that be because politicians are much too depdendent on the Big 4 accooting firms?
As the FT reports this morning: The government is preparing to omit a much delayed overhaul of the UK’s audit and corporate governance regimes from
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Good for the RSPB – for saying that the government were liars
The RSPB posted this on Twitter yesterday: The thread of which this was the lead post repeated the claim time and again that the government
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The economic truths that seem to have passed Labour by
I commented yesterday on LBC on Rachel Reeves telling the Sunday Telegraph that she has no plans to increase taxes on the wealthiest people in
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Overcoming fear
I read two articles yesterday that had a particular impact on me. One was in the FT, and referred to Jay Powell’s speech at Jackson
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Neoclassical economists are the last people to listen to on climate change
I read this post by my Green New Deal colleague, and friend, Ann Pettifor, yesterday, and with her permission, I share it here because it
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Greedflation is alive and well in UK boardrooms
As the FT notes this morning: FTSE 100 bosses were given a 16 per cent pay rise on average last year, catapulting their earnings to
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There are Tories mad enough to promote a referendum on climate change
I found myself utterly bemused by this tweet: https://twitter.com/telegraph/status/1692055830911177209?s=66&t=fQEnD35XLiGihXLT1M1wyA I know that Brexit was used to give the elderly the chance to well and truly
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