I take the newsletter of the US-based Patriotic Millionaires as one amongst the many sources I use for blogging. I don’t always agree with it:
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When Michael met Arthur
I got sent this in response to my blog this morning about debating Arthur Laffer. Some might a few scenes offensive, but I don’t, I
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The real message from the Pandora Papers is that it is the fight to save democracy that is the big offshore issue now
The Pandora Papers have come, and will soon be gone. The important thing about them is to note what we have learned. In my opinion,
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Johnson is living out his fantasy because Labour aren’t offering an alternative vision anyone can buy into
I watched much of Boris Johnson’s speech yesterday. Thankfully, he recognised it was almost entirely content free and got it over quite quickly. But what
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The day I took on Arthur Laffer – and won
I was reminded of this debate between Arthur Laffer (yes, him of the Laffer curve) and me that took place three years ago by a
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Transparency Principles for Tax Policy and Administration: a public consultation from October 2021 to January 2022
I share this post from the Global Initiative for Fiscal Transparency, which promotes a public consultation based on work I have done with Prof Andrew
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Labour has a choice to make. It can say it will balance the books or it can deliver political change, but it can’t do both
I noted the Politics Home email this morning suggesting that whilst the Tories have made almost no policy announcements in Manchester this week they have
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Are Johnson’s days numbered?
Across the board journalists are turning on the Prime Minister. The BBC is doing it, Nick Robinson and Laura Kuenssberg included. Gary Gibbon did it
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Sunak: a Chancellor without a moral compass or an understanding of economics
Yesterday’s speech by Rishi Sunak was, as I mentioned in a tweet I posted just after he spoke, almost entirely vacuous when it came to
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