{"id":73649,"date":"2024-01-05T09:39:47","date_gmt":"2024-01-05T09:39:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=73649"},"modified":"2024-01-05T09:44:02","modified_gmt":"2024-01-05T09:44:02","slug":"sir-howartd-davies-a-man-deeply-out-of-touch-with-reality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2024\/01\/05\/sir-howartd-davies-a-man-deeply-out-of-touch-with-reality\/","title":{"rendered":"Sir Howard Davies: a man deeply out of touch with reality"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I posted this on Twitter about an hour ago:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-73650\" src=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/IMG_1297-550x305.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"305\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/IMG_1297-550x305.jpeg 550w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/IMG_1297-540x300.jpeg 540w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/IMG_1297-768x427.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/IMG_1297-600x333.jpeg 600w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/IMG_1297.jpeg 1381w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I admit I was not alone in noticing this, or posting it on X (as it likes to call itself), but it seems that this comment is getting a lot of attention, and appropriately so.<\/p>\n<p>A man so out of touch with reality deserves no role in a bank boardroom, or public life.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I posted this on Twitter about an hour ago: I admit I was not alone in noticing this, or posting it on X (as it<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2024\/01\/05\/sir-howartd-davies-a-man-deeply-out-of-touch-with-reality\/\"><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":[70,35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73649","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-banking","category-economics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73649","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=73649"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73649\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73655,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73649\/revisions\/73655"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}