As Politics Home has noted in an email this morning: A nice quiet start to a very big week, then. Just the Prime Minister warning
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Beating the climate crisis is affordable. So will the Tories do it?
As the Guardian notes this morning: Britain’s biggest environmental groups and charities have warned the government it must double funding to tackle the climate emergency
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The FT has lost the plot on Labour
The propaganda about a general election is ramping upwards. Biases are also, of course, being shown. The FT has most certainly come off the fence.
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The FT’s claim of a ‘Labour swipe of £300 billion’ only just covers pension deficits owing to workers
The FT has just published this quite absurd headline and story: I am quite sure this is largely hyperbole. And I do have reservations about
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A Green New Deal for Scotland (and pretty much anywhere else come to that) : A long read for the weekend
I republish this from the CommonWeal website, where it was published on Friday. My thanks to Ben Wray for editing it: Richard Murphy, a member
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If we don’t recognise the need for fundamental pension reform the elderly are going to be in deep trouble
A comment was posted on the blog a couple of days ago in response to my discussion on what I call the fundamental pension contract.
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Funding the Green New Deal – Part Two
I have already published an explanation showing that the simple reallocation of the tax incentivised savings of UK taxpayers could more than fund the costs
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The G7 and tax – a sign of chaos to come?
This blog post by me was published on the Class think tank blog this morning. I am on the Class advisory board: I have watched
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Ethical accounting: The August Taxcast
In this month’s Tax Justice Network Taxcast, ethics and accountancy — yes they can go together! Plus: as Britain sinks into full crisis-mode over Brexit
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