After a week in which I can fairly describe work as being hard because of the fatigue I felt last weekend, which it now turns
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Neoliberalism was not an accident
Neoliberalism did not just “happen”. It was planned, funded, and carefully rolled out over decades. In this conversation with John Christensen, co-founder of the Tax
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The right way to tax wealth in 2026
The push for wealth taxes has been one of the defining economic debates of 2025. The question now is whether we want policies that work.
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Inequality is a political choice – and the UK keeps choosing it
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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The alternative budget we need: the video
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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The Alternative Budget 2025, Part 9: Essential economic reforms
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 be
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Britain’s oil, gas and finance curses
In 1993, the economist Richard Auty coined the term “resource curse” to describe the paradox that countries with abundant natural resources often grow more slowly
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The Alternative Budget 2025, Part 8: Abolishing national insurance
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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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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