This is from the Times: If you want the OECD data this is it: Labour is going to put us slightly up the rankings. But
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The Institute for Fiscal Studies is a reactionary force in economics
The Guardian has an editorial today in which they say: Economics dominates public debate while being seen as an abstract authority over which people have
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10 things you need to know about UK government debt
The Jubillee Debt Campaign has written a briefing entitled 10 key facts about UK debt. They are worth sharing. Ten key facts everyone should know before discussing
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Uncounted: The November Taxcast
This month on the Tax Justice Network Taxcast TJN CEO Alex Cobham talks about his new book The Uncounted on the politics of counting. Who’s missing from the stats, from the
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Free broadband is socially profitable
I was a signatory to this letter from a majority of the members of the Council of the Progressive Economy Forum in the Guardian: We
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Venn Diagrams for our times: Boris Johnson and climate change
Holding corporations to account: London 10 December
Holding Corporations to Account: towards an Economic Democracy? Tuesday, December 10, 2019 from 7:00 PM – 8:30 PM ***** EARLY BIRD TICKETS WITH 1/3 DISCOUNT END 26TH NOVEMBER
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Labour commits to unitary taxation – which is a long standing tax justice demand
I happily repost the following from the Tax Justice Network blog, excluding the main sections relating to the OECD, to which I refer you to
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The UK needs the type of radicalism Labour is proposing
I have this morning suggested that the questions that the Labour manifesto poses are threefold. The first is whether their diagnosis of the current state
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