The World Inequality Report 2026 opens with a sentence that should trouble anyone who cares about democracy or economic justice: Inequality is a political choice.
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Rachel Reeves will not fix Britain today. So I’ve published my Alternative Budget for 2025 — a complete plan to end austerity, rebuild public services,
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Rachel Reeves will be presenting her Budget on November 26. I will be commenting on that Budget on the day on BBC Radio 2, and
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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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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 Telegraph reported this morning that the National Institute of Economic and Social Research (NIESR) has told Rachel Reeves that raising income tax would be
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The Telegraph can hardly contain its excitement about the forthcoming Tory conference as this week progresses, and as a result, it is doing all it
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This week’s podcast was recorded as the final video in a series of videos that I made for the Global Initiative for Fiscal Transparency. I
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I was sent this video to review by its creator this week. I know who he is. I offered comments to him, but also asked
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