{"id":66195,"date":"2023-01-04T10:39:07","date_gmt":"2023-01-04T10:39:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=66195"},"modified":"2023-01-04T10:39:07","modified_gmt":"2023-01-04T10:39:07","slug":"of-course-we-need-a-more-numerate-country-but-lets-get-the-politics-of-this-right-at-the-same-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2023\/01\/04\/of-course-we-need-a-more-numerate-country-but-lets-get-the-politics-of-this-right-at-the-same-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Of course we need a more numerate country, but let&#8217;s get the politics of this right at the same time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I shared this Twitter thread on that site this morning and will be discussing it on the Jeremy Vine Show on BBC Radio 2 at 12 noon today:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-66196\" src=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Screenshot-2023-01-04-at-10.36.34-550x215.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"215\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Screenshot-2023-01-04-at-10.36.34-550x215.png 550w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Screenshot-2023-01-04-at-10.36.34-768x300.png 768w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Screenshot-2023-01-04-at-10.36.34-600x235.png 600w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Screenshot-2023-01-04-at-10.36.34.png 1064w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-66197\" src=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Screenshot-2023-01-04-at-10.36.55-550x717.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"717\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Screenshot-2023-01-04-at-10.36.55-550x717.png 550w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Screenshot-2023-01-04-at-10.36.55-230x300.png 230w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Screenshot-2023-01-04-at-10.36.55-768x1002.png 768w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Screenshot-2023-01-04-at-10.36.55-307x400.png 307w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Screenshot-2023-01-04-at-10.36.55.png 1058w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-66198\" src=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Screenshot-2023-01-04-at-10.37.15-550x302.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"302\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Screenshot-2023-01-04-at-10.37.15-550x302.png 550w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Screenshot-2023-01-04-at-10.37.15-547x300.png 547w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Screenshot-2023-01-04-at-10.37.15-768x421.png 768w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Screenshot-2023-01-04-at-10.37.15-600x329.png 600w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Screenshot-2023-01-04-at-10.37.15.png 1046w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I shared this Twitter thread on that site this morning and will be discussing it on the Jeremy Vine Show on BBC Radio 2 at<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2023\/01\/04\/of-course-we-need-a-more-numerate-country-but-lets-get-the-politics-of-this-right-at-the-same-time\/\"><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":[35,106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66195","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66195","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=66195"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66195\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}