I note that the Guardian, amongst others, reports this morning that: An international scheme to tax the wealth of the world’s 3,000 billionaires is technically
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Assange’s release
I admit that I have never been Julian Assange’s greatest fan. I met him once, and decided that I could not deal with him. Something
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Tackling the political void that Labour will create after 4th July
People are beginning to realise, with a sense of dull awareness, that we are heading into the most enormous political void in this country. There
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Wes Streeting’s dreams are going to be shattered
I have published this video this morning. In it I argue that it seems as if Wes Streeting’s dream for the NHS is that it
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It won’t come better than this
John Oliver’s US based talk show is not easily accessible, at least by me, in the UK. He did, however, do an analysis of the
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For once the IFS are on the same side – by keeping a significant distance from Labour’s dire economic plans
I have been pleased to hear Paul Johnson and Carl Emerson of the Institute for Fiscal Studies criticise both the Labour and Conservative parties’ economic
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The politics of blandness
A weekend spent trying to avoid some of the discussion going on around the election was worthwhile. At the end of it I had done
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Migration: you ain’t seen nothing yet
This morning’s short video has now been published. In it I argue that whatever our politicians say, migration is going to increase – because climate
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If you look in the wrong place, as Labour plans to do, you will never find the tax gap
HM Revenue & Customs published its new tax gap figures yesterday. They are nonsense, as they always have been. I have explained why here as
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