{"id":89770,"date":"2026-02-05T10:21:58","date_gmt":"2026-02-05T10:21:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=89770"},"modified":"2026-02-05T10:21:58","modified_gmt":"2026-02-05T10:21:58","slug":"politics-for-people-an-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2026\/02\/05\/politics-for-people-an-update\/","title":{"rendered":"Politics for People: an update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;\">The team here had another meeting this morning and reviewed all the feedback (including a few not even through moderation as yet due to the pressure of time), we have had <a href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2026\/02\/04\/politics-for-people-and-why-we-have-chosen-the-phrase\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">on the suggested retitling of our ideas<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>We noted that Politics for People is generally working for most commentators. We discussed the exceptions, but\u00a0decided to stick with this term.<\/p>\n<p>We also noted and heard loud and clear the kickback on the political economy of care as a subtitle. We agreed that we needed to change that. It is too academic and unclear.<\/p>\n<p>We discussed the proposed alternatives, but I then raised the possibility that we might already have the required terminology. It is 'Politics for People: Funding the Future'.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-89771\" src=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/PFPFTF-1-550x309.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"309\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/PFPFTF-1-550x309.png 550w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/PFPFTF-1-533x300.png 533w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/PFPFTF-1-768x432.png 768w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/PFPFTF-1-1536x864.png 1536w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/PFPFTF-1-600x338.png 600w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/PFPFTF-1.png 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The team instantly liked this. I rarely win an argument so easily.<\/p>\n<p>Thoughts?<\/p>\n<div id=\"polls-314\" class=\"wp-polls\">\n\t<form id=\"polls_form_314\" class=\"wp-polls-form\" action=\"\/Blog\/index.php\" method=\"post\">\n\t\t<p style=\"display: none;\"><input type=\"hidden\" id=\"poll_314_nonce\" name=\"wp-polls-nonce\" value=\"5e0a27e333\" \/><\/p>\n\t\t<p style=\"display: none;\"><input type=\"hidden\" name=\"poll_id\" value=\"314\" \/><\/p>\n\t\t<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Is 'Politics for People: Funding the Future' the right description of our thinking for us to use?<\/strong><\/p><div id=\"polls-314-ans\" class=\"wp-polls-ans\"><ul class=\"wp-polls-ul\">\n\t\t<li><input type=\"radio\" id=\"poll-answer-1396\" name=\"poll_314\" value=\"1396\" \/> <label for=\"poll-answer-1396\">Yes<\/label><\/li>\n\t\t<li><input type=\"radio\" id=\"poll-answer-1397\" name=\"poll_314\" value=\"1397\" \/> <label for=\"poll-answer-1397\">No<\/label><\/li>\n\t\t<li><input type=\"radio\" id=\"poll-answer-1398\" name=\"poll_314\" value=\"1398\" \/> <label for=\"poll-answer-1398\">Try again<\/label><\/li>\n\t\t<li><input type=\"radio\" id=\"poll-answer-1399\" name=\"poll_314\" value=\"1399\" \/> <label for=\"poll-answer-1399\">See my suggestion in the comments<\/label><\/li>\n\t\t<\/ul><p style=\"text-align: center;\"><input type=\"button\" name=\"vote\" value=\"   Vote   \" class=\"Buttons\" onclick=\"poll_vote(314);\" \/><\/p><p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"#ViewPollResults\" onclick=\"poll_result(314); return false;\" title=\"View Results Of This Poll\">View Results<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n\t<\/form>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"polls-314-loading\" class=\"wp-polls-loading\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-polls\/images\/loading.gif\" width=\"16\" height=\"16\" alt=\"Loading ...\" title=\"Loading ...\" class=\"wp-polls-image\" \/>&nbsp;Loading ...<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The team here had another meeting this morning and reviewed all the feedback (including a few not even through moderation as yet due to the<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2026\/02\/05\/politics-for-people-an-update\/\"><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-89770","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogging"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89770","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=89770"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89770\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":89773,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89770\/revisions\/89773"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}