The frequent commentator on this blog who uses the name Schofield suggested this morning, in response to today’s video, that: Not being willing to pay
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I put out a tweet last night suggesting that whatever might happen in the meeting between Putin and Trump, the outcome would be half-baked Alaska.
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Compass, the left-of-centre think tank, published polling yesterday on the opinion of Labour Party members that states a blunt truth, which is that the Labour government
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Rachel Reeves may be about to close a major inheritance tax loophole — and the wealthy are calling it “dangerous.” But what’s really dangerous in
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Politicians tell us taxes pay for public services. In reality, it does something far more important — it shapes our society. In this video, I
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As the FT has noted this morning: Fears of a massive non-dom exodus from the UK have been allayed by initial tax data, which suggests
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The Overton Window decides what can – and cannot – be said in politics. But who builds this “window of acceptability”? In this video, I
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I was amused by this opening to a report in the FT this morning: Wealth managers say their clients are increasingly worried the Treasury could
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Rachel Reeves is said to face a £40–50 billion budget shortfall. One fair, simple solution? VAT on financial services. Right now, banks, wealth managers, pension
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