{"id":89944,"date":"2026-02-12T07:10:42","date_gmt":"2026-02-12T07:10:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=89944"},"modified":"2026-02-12T07:10:42","modified_gmt":"2026-02-12T07:10:42","slug":"the-warm-up-act","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2026\/02\/12\/the-warm-up-act\/","title":{"rendered":"The warm up act"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As I have previously advised, our Cambridge event on 28 February is sold out now, and it looks like we cannot expand capacity, but it is time to admit I have a warm-up gig in Norwich on 26 February:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-89945\" src=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Screenshot-2026-02-11-at-16.15.04-550x272.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"272\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Screenshot-2026-02-11-at-16.15.04-550x272.png 550w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Screenshot-2026-02-11-at-16.15.04-768x380.png 768w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Screenshot-2026-02-11-at-16.15.04-1536x760.png 1536w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Screenshot-2026-02-11-at-16.15.04-600x297.png 600w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Screenshot-2026-02-11-at-16.15.04.png 1876w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I think tickets for this are free. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eventbrite.com\/e\/in-conversation-with-richard-murphy-tickets-1978195046636?aff=ebdssbdestsearch\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">They are available here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>And, if you are in Edinburgh on 21 March, there is also this:<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-89436\" src=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Copy-of-Scotlands-Economics-Festival-sessions-1.jpg\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Copy-of-Scotlands-Economics-Festival-sessions-1.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Copy-of-Scotlands-Economics-Festival-sessions-1-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Copy-of-Scotlands-Economics-Festival-sessions-1-400x400.jpg 400w\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Specifically, I am doing this session:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-89437\" src=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Copy-of-Scotlands-Economics-Festival-sessions-19.jpg\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Copy-of-Scotlands-Economics-Festival-sessions-19.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Copy-of-Scotlands-Economics-Festival-sessions-19-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Copy-of-Scotlands-Economics-Festival-sessions-19-400x400.jpg 400w\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\" \/><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Tickets for my session\u00a0<a role=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tickettailor.com\/events\/scotlandseconomicsfestival\/1959942\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">can be purchased here,\u00a0<\/a>but the whole festival takes place in Edinburgh over the 19th to 21st March and is a unique, public-facing celebration of economic thinking designed to challenge, inform, and inspire. The full programme and tickets can be found here:\u00a0<a role=\"link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.scoteconfest.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=http:\/\/www.scoteconfest.org\/&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1769454977215000&amp;usg=AOvVaw3obzfFjEZ4X0egRGl1UvnH\">www.scoteconfest.org<\/a>. Give it a look, and I look forward to seeing you there, or online, because this event is being streamed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As I have previously advised, our Cambridge event on 28 February is sold out now, and it looks like we cannot expand capacity, but it<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2026\/02\/12\/the-warm-up-act\/\"><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-89944","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogging"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89944","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=89944"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89944\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":89947,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89944\/revisions\/89947"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}