{"id":64519,"date":"2022-08-27T20:42:31","date_gmt":"2022-08-27T19:42:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=64519"},"modified":"2022-08-27T20:42:31","modified_gmt":"2022-08-27T19:42:31","slug":"the-band-might-be-back-on-the-road","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2022\/08\/27\/the-band-might-be-back-on-the-road\/","title":{"rendered":"The band might be back on the road"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lunch today:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-64520\" src=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/9250400B-7401-426F-B21C-90CB244CF07F-550x413.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"413\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/9250400B-7401-426F-B21C-90CB244CF07F-550x413.jpeg 550w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/9250400B-7401-426F-B21C-90CB244CF07F-400x300.jpeg 400w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/9250400B-7401-426F-B21C-90CB244CF07F-768x576.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/9250400B-7401-426F-B21C-90CB244CF07F-1536x1152.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/9250400B-7401-426F-B21C-90CB244CF07F-2048x1536.jpeg 2048w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/9250400B-7401-426F-B21C-90CB244CF07F-533x400.jpeg 533w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><br \/>\nFrom left, me, Jim Henry, Prem (Lord) Sikka and John Christensen.<\/p>\n<p>In 2002 Prem introduced John and me and so became what we always describe as the grandfather of the tax justice movement, which John and I went in to launch and direct for some time. Jim has campaigned for longer than anyone else for tax justice in the US, which was one of the things we were marking. Let me also acknowledge all Prem has done too.<\/p>\n<p>What did we discuss? How to deliver economic justice, of course, when so few big ideas are now coming forward to address the multiple crises that we now face.<\/p>\n<p>Will the old band be playing together again? It could well be, most especially now that so much of the tax justice movement seems \u00a0to have so badly lost its way.<\/p>\n<p>Watch this space\u2026..<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lunch today: From left, me, Jim Henry, Prem (Lord) Sikka and John Christensen. In 2002 Prem introduced John and me and so became what we<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2022\/08\/27\/the-band-might-be-back-on-the-road\/\"><em> Read the full article&#8230;<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[204],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64519","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economic-justice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64519","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=64519"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64519\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}