Videos: There is no such thing as a fiscal rule, and the cost of nationalising water
Wednesday, April 10th, 2024I posted this on TikTok this morning. The video discusses Rachel Reeves’ claim that she is bound by fiscal rules that she has made up.
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Thames Water is bust: our politicians need to deal with it
Sunday, April 7th, 2024This morning, the business media is obsessed with the fact that Thames Water has failed to make a payment due on debt owed by its
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Both the Tories and Labour are pro-market extremists now
Sunday, April 7th, 2024This item was posted on LinkedIn last night by Dr Raj Thamotheram, with whom I have been in occasional contact for quite a long time.
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Are we ready for a debate on tax?
Saturday, April 6th, 2024Alan Rusbridger, the former editor of the Guardian and now the editor of Prospect magazine, has made the first editorial comment on the Taxing Wealth
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The Taxing Wealth Report 2024 - the launch video
Friday, April 5th, 2024This video, made by me and my son, Thomas, is an introduction to the Taxing Wealth Report 2024: The transcript is as follows: I wrote
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Oxford needs to wake up and smell the shit
Sunday, March 31st, 2024I watched both boat races yesterday. Why? Because I wanted Cambridge to won. They do, after all, train in my home city of Ely on
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Why is Labour backing what its likely supporters think to be the worst possible option for water?
Saturday, March 30th, 2024I put this poll on Twitter yesterday: Let me say straight away, and before anyone else does, that I anm aware that such polls are
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Just suppose we tried to meet needs? What might happen?
Saturday, March 30th, 2024A new commentator on this blog named Tony Wikrent made an interesting comment yesterday, saying, when discussing the purpose of economics: ”Many subscribe to Lionel
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It's not just Thames Water: the whole of the English water industry is environmentally insolvent
Friday, March 29th, 2024I posted this thread on Twitter last June, but it is just as relevant today: There has been much discussion about the likely failure of
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