Penalties on carers make clear that we are being governed by people who do not care
Friday, April 26th, 2024As the Guardian has noted: New figures show more than 150,000 unpaid carers are now facing huge fines for minor rule breaches, as MPs, charities
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Rail nationalisation is a welcome step - but only the first step of many Labour will need to take
Thursday, April 25th, 2024Labour has said it plans to renationalise almost all of Britain’s railways. I welcome that. The simple fact that it is willing to acknowledge that
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We need to be awake to nature
Wednesday, April 24th, 2024One of the strangest consequences of running a blog that has quite a high volume of traffic is that I receive a great many press
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Why are politicians obsessing about debt?
Tuesday, April 23rd, 2024The Office for National Statistics has produced new figures for the national finances for March 2024 this morning. In their release, they say: Borrowing in
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Capital gains tax on houses - again
Tuesday, April 23rd, 2024I returned to the subject of capital gains tax on people’s homes yesterday, knowing well that of all the proposals I made in the Taxing
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Subverting democracy
Monday, April 22nd, 2024As the Guardian notes this morning: Thousands of voters in the May local elections are at risk of being disenfranchised because of “cynical” rule changes
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We need a better song to sing
Monday, April 22nd, 2024The Guardian features an interview by John Harris with Caroline Lucas MP this morning. I’ve known Caroline for almost twenty years now. We are both
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A 3% inflation target would work just as well as a 2% one
Thursday, April 18th, 2024I just posted this video on YouTube and elsewhere. As I note, a 3% inflation target would work just as well as a 2% one
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The UK's missing companies
Wednesday, April 17th, 2024I posted this video on YouTube and elsewhere this morning: In case the video does not show, the link is here. The transcript is: We
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