This FT headline is the best response I have seen to Rachel Reeves’ demand that UK pensions be reformed to support British companies: For once
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The fiscal rule that we really need
Andy Haldane, formerly at the Bank of England and now at the Royal Society of Arts, has said something I can definitely agree with in
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Data on doctors leaving the NHS could not justify the pension bung for the very wealthy
I was approached by David Burke of the Daily Mirror yesterday to comment on this data in the context of the new pension tax reliefs
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Will increasing permissible pension contributions get you back to work?
Jeremy Hunt is supposedly going to announce measures to get those over the age of 50 who have dropped out of the workforce back to
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Starmer’s ideas about the private sector are wholly misplaced
As the FT notes this morning: More UK companies are drawing up plans to shift their stock market listings to the US, bankers say, in
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Biden has been forced to confront neoliberal madness head on
This report from the FT this morning is of interest: Joe Biden is on course to issue the first veto of his presidency after two
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Pension justice
There is speculation in the media that the state pension age might increase to 68 sometime during the 2030s. I cannot be alone in thinking this
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Why are we subsiding the wealthy by £30bn a year?
I have just published this video, which is based on the Twitter thread published today: The transcript is as follows: New data published by the
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The wealthiest 10% in the UK get at least £30bn a year in subsidies for their savings each year – enough to pay for the NHS for 9 weeks
I published this thread on Twitter this morning: The government has just published new data on the cost of UK tax reliefs, which is the
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