{"id":94500,"date":"2026-08-02T07:26:30","date_gmt":"2026-08-02T06:26:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=94500"},"modified":"2026-08-02T07:26:30","modified_gmt":"2026-08-02T06:26:30","slug":"you-can-change-the-world-an-example","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2026\/08\/02\/you-can-change-the-world-an-example\/","title":{"rendered":"You can change the world: an example"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I <a href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2026\/08\/02\/you-can-change-the-world\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">said in this morning's video<\/a> that we can all do our bit to change the world.<\/p>\n<p>I think I had already recorded that video when I received an email from Roger Steer of the Sheffield Funding the Future group, telling me that one of its members, Berenard Little, had secured publication of this letter in the Sheffield Star.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-94501\" src=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/IMG_0819-550x733.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"733\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/IMG_0819-550x733.jpeg 550w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/IMG_0819-225x300.jpeg 225w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/IMG_0819-768x1024.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/IMG_0819-1152x1536.jpeg 1152w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/IMG_0819-1536x2048.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/IMG_0819-300x400.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/IMG_0819-scaled.jpeg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Three thoughts follow from that.<\/p>\n<p>First, a group had been formed, and I do think this helps when addressing issues.<\/p>\n<p>Second, letter writing can work, and it is much longer than anything that would have got in the national press.<\/p>\n<p>Third, my thanks to Bernard and Roger.<\/p>\n<p>We can make a difference, and it is by chipping away at things that we do.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I said in this morning&#8217;s video that we can all do our bit to change the world. I think I had already recorded that video<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2026\/08\/02\/you-can-change-the-world-an-example\/\"><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":[25,204,35,147,118,174,224,106,223],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-94500","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogging","category-economic-justice","category-economics","category-inequality","category-labour","category-modern-monetary-theory","category-neoliberalism","category-politics","category-politics-of-care"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94500","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=94500"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94500\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":94502,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94500\/revisions\/94502"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}