Stephanie Kelton’s new film, Finding the Money, is finally available to rent. You can do so for £2.99 from here. The film’s website is here:
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Tackling inequality requires an increase in taxes on wealth
According to the Guardian yesterday: A failure by Rachel Reeves to back a “windfall of wealth taxes” in her budget risks fuelling the rise of the populist
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What’s the real reason why we tax?
Most people assume that we tax to fund government spending, but we don’t in economies like that we have in the UK. Instead, we have
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Blogged out
I am blogged out today, by which I mean, I need a break. I noted a commentator saying this morning that he did not know
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Do you care? That’s the political question for 2024
Left versus right seems like deeply antiquated politics from another era to me. The fight between labour and capital makes no sense when we have
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Starmer’s new climate policy is unforgivable
The Sun reports this morning that: The PM is announcing a £22billion cash injection over 25 years for “game-changing” carbon capture technology in Merseyside and Teesside. It also notes
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When we have well-funded palliative and social care, we can discuss assisted dying, but we’re not there yet
It was only a few weeks ago that the Telegraph reported that: The state of end-of-life care in the UK means the country is not
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UK company law is a joke: it exists, but no one enforces it
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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