Will Boris Johnson go the country (as it now is) this autumn? My answer is yes for three reasons. First, this will distract from preparation
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What chance of stopping five years of triumphal racism?
Paul Mason wrote this on Twitter yesterday: Until Johnson unleashed his cabinet of libertarians and semi-fascists you could hedge bets on Corbyn’s current strategy: now
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When the Nobel prize gets it wrong
Steve Keen wrote an excellent article in The Mint recently. It began with these paragraphs: One of the provisions of the Nobel Prize is that
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Dismissing Johnson is to misread the political situation
I am noting left-wingers on Facebook and elsewhere saying that Boris Johnson is good news for the left, because he faces all the problems Theresa
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Politicians of all other parties* need to rise to the challenge of Johnson
Boris Johnson is to be prime minister. And there are rumours that Iain Duncan-Smith and Priti Patel are to return to Cabinet. It is easy
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Now what shall we do?
When I was quite young, but which I mean of primary school age, I recall having one book of poems. It must have been my
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HMRC has to get its statistics right
The Fair Tax Mark tweeted yesterday: Hmmm🤔 HMRC’s Annual Report just out. Curious how the UK’s official “Tax Gap” stays pretty much flat year-in year-out,
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A Northern Green New Deal Powerhouse
Whereas the Green New Deal up to now has been discussed my most people in principle, Colin Hines and the Green New Deal Group has
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The times, they are a-changin’ for minimum corporation tax rates
The FT has just reported that: As expected, the G7 also agreed [today] on the principle of a global minimum corporate tax rate to ensure
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