I did, of course, watch England’s match. I also admit that read about 50 pages of a novel during its course. I was not glued
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The future of tax justice
As has become apparent over the last week or so, I am increasingly critical of the current direction and focus of the tax justice movement.
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A global tax deal is very welcome for all its faults
The FT has reported this in the last couple of hours: Thank goodness, and congratulations to all involved, say I. I am well aware that
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Public services are failing in the UK and the wealthy are undertaxed. Is it time to spot the link between the two and put it right?
The most basic obligation of the government is to care
Markets are realising that all the nonsense carefully constructed by those wanting to crush government spending was just a load of unsubstantiated hype on economic booms and inflation risks
The FT has just published a comment on recent market moves saying: An investor consensus that took months to build, namely that robust economic growth
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How tax can shape society if we understand modern monetary theory
I mentioned yesterday that Prof Andrew Baker, a colleague at the University of Sheffield, and I had won an award for our academic journal paper
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The government is acting with total contempt, for the state, the instruments of government and the people of this country
As The Guardian notes in an editorial this morning: The purpose of the state is freedom,” the Dutch philosopher Baruch Spinoza wrote. Its aim is
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The Tories have no love for Johnson
I share this tweet, and most especially the photo in it of an article in The Times, which can be clicked on and expanded to
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