The Treasury should be on Covid trial alongside Johnson and Sunak
Sunday, June 4th, 2023As The Observer notes this morning: Rishi Sunak is facing a barrage of criticism in the run-up to the official Covid-19 inquiry as a leading
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From darkness into bleak
Friday, May 26th, 2023My latest podcast with Tony and Martin from The Echo Chamber podcast in Ireland is now out. Recorded a little over a week ago, it
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Let's not pretend otherwise: we have a banking crisis. It is time to talk about it rather than deny it.
Tuesday, March 21st, 2023Martin Wolf has an article in the FT this morning which is good. First, he says we have a bank crisis, and I agree with
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What does the City of London do for the UK?
Monday, February 20th, 2023Martin Wolf has been obsessing in the FT about the low rates of savings and investment in the UK, making the rather basic error of
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We live in a broken, divided and profoundly unfair society
Thursday, February 9th, 2023The Guardian has a headline this morning that says: It has another that declares: How can these headlines be reconciled? That is easy. What they
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We are entering a new political era. The only problem is that very few politicians seem aware off this
Monday, December 12th, 2022It is my usual morning practice to scan a wide range of news sources before deciding what to write on this blog. Doing that this
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High-tax states work for the good of those who live in them: Truss is wrong to claim anything else
Wednesday, September 21st, 2022Martin Wolf’s article in the FT today, in which he tears Liz Truss and her economics to shreds, includes this chart as evidence of what
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Advancing Fiscal Transparency for Development: a free online course
Tuesday, August 16th, 2022I have posted on the new Tax Transparency Principles that I have co-authored for the Global Initiative for Fiscal Transparency that were published last week,
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Universal basic services are the only answer to the crisis we are facing
Friday, August 5th, 2022I have just posted this long, but I think fairly important, thread to Twitter: Some people might have noticed that I disagreed the Bank of
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