{"id":71095,"date":"2023-07-29T08:39:23","date_gmt":"2023-07-29T07:39:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=71095"},"modified":"2023-07-29T08:39:23","modified_gmt":"2023-07-29T07:39:23","slug":"the-spare-bedroom-won","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2023\/07\/29\/the-spare-bedroom-won\/","title":{"rendered":"The spare bedroom won"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When I began tax justice campaigning I was often asked by the curious where I came from. I was often tempted to say \u2018from my spare bedroom\u2019 but never did so. Having a corporate identity became useful when answering this question.<\/p>\n<p>I was reminded of this when this week the Green Party's deputy leader Zack Polanski referred to me during a meeting as \u2018Richard Murphy from Twitter\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>Where is that, I thought?<\/p>\n<p>And is it better than \u2018from his spare bedroom\u2019, I wondered?<\/p>\n<p>Then I mused on what it must be like to be from a file server.<\/p>\n<p>At that point the spare bedroom won.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I began tax justice campaigning I was often asked by the curious where I came from. I was often tempted to say \u2018from my<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2023\/07\/29\/the-spare-bedroom-won\/\"><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":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71095","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogging"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71095","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=71095"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71095\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71097,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71095\/revisions\/71097"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71095"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}