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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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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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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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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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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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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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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I feel that I should acknowledge that the Tories are holding their conference. I have tried hard to persuade myself that there must be things
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I was in North East London last night at the invitation of Faiza Shaheen, who was scandalously sacked as the Labour candidate for her local constituency
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