Labour’s Shabana Mahmood MP, who is our Home Secretary, ramped up her hate-fuelled campaign against migrants yesterday. Refugees will no longer get an automatic permanent
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Does taxing the wealthy control inflation?
I was asked recently by an email correspondent if a government that uses taxes to control inflation will always end up taxing the middle class
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The Alternative Budget 2025, Part 3: Creating a new fiscal framework
Rachel Reeves will be presenting her Budget on November 26, if the Labour government of which she is a part lasts that long. I will
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How far can these callous idiots fall?
As the Guardian noted this morning: Asylum seekers could have jewellery or other valuables taken to pay for the costs of processing their cases, a
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Economic questions: the Adam Smith question
This is one of a series of posts that will ask what the most pertinent question raised by a prominent influencer of political economy might have been,
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The Alternative Budget 2025, Part 2: Understanding tax and ‘borrowing’
Rachel Reeves will be presenting her Budget on November 26, if the Labour government of which she is a part lasts that long. I will
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Why do professionals hate change?
Why do accountants, economists, lawyers, medics, politicians and civil servants all resist the very changes the world needs? In this video, I explain why top-tier
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Economic questions: the Jesus of Nazareth question
This is one of a series of posts that will ask what the most pertinent question raised by a prominent influencer of political economy might have been,
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The economic questions: the Amartya Sen question
This is one of a series of posts that will ask what the most pertinent question raised by a prominent influencer of political economy might have been,
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