I share this announcement from the Canadian based TaxCOOP made on Linkedin last night: The last link is here. My chapter is on tax and
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When Ant & Dec turn on the Prime Minister he should realise that it is time for him to go. But what next?
Few readers of this blog can be unaware of the video now circulating of Downing Street staff joking last December about the Christmas Party that
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People think 8% of UK government spending is on MPs and that all pensioners share just 11% of government spending between them
It is staggering how little people know about the UK economy. I noticed this chart is part of the thread on Twitter yesterday: The research
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If we want thriving markets in the UK we have to beat tax evasion, but the government is not listening
I noticed this article in the American Economic Review yesterday: Nothing surprises me about this finding, which is completely consistent with arguments I have been
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Why do we have dire public services in the UK? Could it be something to do with our refusal to pay for them?
When you’re asked why the UK has dire public services one entirely appropriate answer could be that we’re simply not willing to pay for them.
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Beating Covid is possible, but not with current economic policies
I was asked to speak at an event organised by the Zero-Covid Coalition last night. This group takes the epidemiologically logical approach that the only
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When will we ask the big ethical questions that coronavirus now demands that we face?
As the Guardian notes in its morning headline story: As fears grow over the threat posed by the highly mutated Omicron variant, detected in more
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Governments cannot borrow in their own currencies, but they can provide places of safe deposit for savers, and it is essential that they do
I found this headline in the FT both simultaneously worrying and intriguing: Germany has had a constitutional ban on its government borrowing for some years
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To be free
A commentator on this blog named Ros Wain sent me this poem written by her son. I share it because I think it is worth
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