Nigel Farage says cutting “red tape” boosts growth. Let’s be honest about what that means: weaker paid leave, weaker sick and maternity pay, weaker anti-discrimination
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The corporate race from DEI
As the Telegraph reports this morning: Burberry has axed its diversity chief as part of a sweeping overhaul at the luxury goods giant. In a move
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Trump’s war on the USA
As the Washington Post noted yesterday: President Donald Trump delivered a meandering address to an unprecedented gathering of the country’s top military leaders, railing against
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The single transferable party
Introduction This is one of a series of posts on this blog which summarise my thinking on some key economic issues about which I am
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Tax changes everything
This week’s podcast was recorded as the final video in a series of videos that I made for the Global Initiative for Fiscal Transparency. I
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The team has expanded
The Funding the Future team has grown in number today. Eighteen months ago, I was responsible for dispatching almost all the content on this blog,
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Humanism, fascism, and migration
Umair Haque recently posed a profound question. What, he asked, is the opposite of fascism? His answer was not “democracy,” as many would suppose, but
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Farage vs Democracy
Nigel Farage sells Reform as a people’s movement—but scratch the surface and you find a one-man company with no real internal democracy. In this video,
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Starmer and the terror that might yet come
Keir Starmer said in his Labour conference speech that the threat from Reform was, as far as the UK is concerned, as great as the
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