I am unashamedly quoting from the comments made by Nicholas (Lord) Stern noted in the Guardian this morning. As they record: Many economic assessments of
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We don’t need to tax the rich more to save the least well off money: we need to tax the rich fairly because we don’t right now
The Guardian reports this morning that: A group of 30 UK millionaires have called on the chancellor to tax them and other rich people more
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The era of Enlightenment is most definitely under threat. Maybe it is drawing to a close. A very Dark Age is starting.
Two stories in the Guardian grabbed my attention this morning. One is a report on Sajid Javid’s car crash interview on Covid yesterday. Twitter was
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£4 of the weekly cut in Universal Credit is going to be given in tax cuts to the UK’s banks
As the FT notes this morning: Rishi Sunak will slash a tax surcharge on bank profits by more than 60 per cent in next week’s
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HM Treasury is not serious about climate change and its Net-Zero report is the clearest possible indication of that
Having spent yesterday afternoon reading the government’s dismal proposals for new green corporate reporting – where the thinking simply does not add up to a
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Johnson very clearly remains a climate sceptic opposed to the action required to save our planet
As the Guardian has reported this morning, the government’s headline plan for greening the UK’s housing stock is this: Ministers have unveiled plans for £5,000
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Is Boris Johnson provoking political violence?
I have just posted this on Twitter: I am deeply shocked by Johnson’s choice of language. He knows what the language of ‘shirts’ is all
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Do we have a legitimate government?
It’s OK to be angry. How else will we change the world?
I wrote this on Twitter yesterday: I thought there was some risk in saying this. The anti-angry brigade is everywhere right now. I am often
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