UK company law exists to protect society and honest traders from fraudsters, but since no one has the job of properly enforcing that law, it
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The economic consequences of the war
Listening to political speakers over the last day or so, from Starmer to Biden and beyond, it is apparent that they share a common view.
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Can Starmer stop the stench from rising?
Will Keir Starmer ever get anything right? Having made a complete mess of Labour’s reputation for both honesty and integrity within weeks of getting into
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The government can never run out of money
Everyone but the national government of a country can run out of money. They can’t because they make the stuff. So, in that case, why
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Live streaming?
I am aware that quite a lot of people got quite excited recently when Steve Keen suggested that he, I, and maybe Danny Blanchflower, plus
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Reeves: the slave of defunct economists
As the Guardian noted yesterday evening: Ministers are being asked to draw up billions of pounds in cuts to infrastructure projects over the next 18
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Is £90,000 a year a middle-class income?
When being interviewed on the radio, I was told by the broadcaster that £90,000 was only ‘middle-class income’ and not enough for MPs. She was,
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War
We face the prospect of an escalating war in the Middle East. The politics of this are obvious. The struggle to control oil is clearly
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Rachel’s austerity blues
I created this song in a couple of minutes yesterday using Suno AI. https://www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/Rachels-Austerity-Blues.mp4 These are the lyrics: All I asked it to do was
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