The FT has this headline this morning: Then you read the subheading, and it says: So the truth is, Labour has said something absurd, and
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People will not accept enforced prejudice
Labour is continuing to prove it is inept. As the Guardian reports this morning: Ministers have rolled back plans for a central element of the
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The politics of care in 2026
The Funding the Future team had what you might call an “awayday” yesterday, except that it did not last all day, and we only went
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Scotland is moving in the right tax direction
As the FT has noted: The Scottish government said it planned to introduce a “mansion tax” on homes valued at more than £1mn and to
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Podcast: UBI and the Common Sense Policy Group
Universal basic income (UBI) is often dismissed as unaffordable, unrealistic, or politically impossible. But the conversation I had recently with Howard Reed and Elliott Johnson
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Trump, the dollar and you
We issued this YouTube short at lunchtime today: This is the transcript: Donald Trump is opposing Jerome Powell, who is the chair of the US
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Trump and the Fed: an MMT perspective
As is clear from multiple media reports, the dispute between the Trump administration and the US Federal Reserve (which is the US equivalent of the
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Putting SAD behind us
There had to come a moment when I would say I agreed with something the Donald Trump administration said in the USA, and, to my
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PDFs
A number of people have asked of late if we might make it easier to share articles published here, and some suggested it would be
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