Labour abandons hope
Thursday, February 8th, 2024After what appears to have been an eternity of dithering today, Labour is finally announcing that it has abandoned its pledge to spend £28 billion
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The Taxing Wealth Report – an update
Thursday, February 8th, 2024I have this morning published what I think will be the pre-penultimate section of the Taxing Wealth Report 2024 this morning, dealing with necessary changes
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The Taxing Wealth Report: Removing existing anomalies within the UK system that prevent the delivery of tax justice might cost £19.1 billion per annum
Thursday, February 8th, 2024I have this morning published the latest note in my series that will make up the Taxing Wealth Report 2024. This latest note suggests that if
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The solution to increasing inability to work in the UK cannot be to raise the retirement age, which can only make everything worse
Monday, February 5th, 2024As a Guardian headline says this morning: The logic is that: By age 70, only 50% of adults in England and Wales are now disability-free and able
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This country does not need a smaller state, but a more active one
Sunday, February 4th, 2024Sometimes I have to agree with Martin Wolf at the FT. This afternoon he has written this: As Nicholas Stern has noted in the FT,
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Labour and the nocebo effect
Sunday, February 4th, 2024Most people are familiar with who are called placebo effects. Fewer are familiar with the nocebo effects. These can be described in this way: The
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Without investment in a low-carbon future, the future is likely to be bleak, barren, hopeless and devastated
Saturday, February 3rd, 2024There is an article in the Guardian this morning under the headline: Labour scrapping £28bn green pledge could leave UK colder, sicker and poorer I
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Clive Lewis on Labour's £28bn plan for a Green New Deal
Saturday, February 3rd, 2024My Green New Deal colleague, Clive Lewis MP, has an article in the New Statesman discussing Labour’s £28 billion plan for a Green New Deal.
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Why repaying the national debt is not a good idea
Friday, February 2nd, 2024Earlier this week, I published a proposed glossary entry on the true nature of our so-called national debt. This won a lot of praise, but
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