{"id":94585,"date":"2026-08-05T07:13:46","date_gmt":"2026-08-05T06:13:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=94585"},"modified":"2026-08-05T07:13:46","modified_gmt":"2026-08-05T06:13:46","slug":"infographic-political-gaslighting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2026\/08\/05\/infographic-political-gaslighting\/","title":{"rendered":"Infographic: Political gaslighting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I published an infographic on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2026\/08\/04\/infographic-economic-gaslighting\/\">economic gaslighting<\/a> yesterday. This seems like the obvious follow-up:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-94586\" src=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Political-gaslighting-2-550x824.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"824\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Political-gaslighting-2-550x824.png 550w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Political-gaslighting-2-200x300.png 200w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Political-gaslighting-2-768x1151.png 768w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Political-gaslighting-2-267x400.png 267w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Political-gaslighting-2.png 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><b>How to expand this image<\/b><\/p>\n<p>If you press CTRL or Command and Plus (+) on your keyboard, your browser should increase the size of your page every time you do this. Press CTRL or Command and 0 (zero) key together to restore the screen to normal.<\/p>\n<p><b>How to download this image.\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n<p>If you right-click the image, you should be given the option to download it to your computer. So long as you do so without a view to making a profit, you may do so without further permission. Commercial use requires consent. But if you just want to share it, do so with whoever and wherever you want. That is the purpose of these infographics.<br \/>\n<b>\u00a0<\/b><br \/>\n<b>The image library<\/b><br \/>\n<b>\u00a0<\/b><br \/>\nWe are planning a library of these images. It will be available very soon (and maybe later today).<\/p>\n<p><b>AI use.\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n<p>I used AI, among other tools, when creating this post, including for spell-checking as I was writing it. I explain how I <a href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2026\/07\/26\/my-use-of-ai\/\">use that technology here<\/a>. I also used a word processor, my brain, coffee, discussion, and about 50 years of experience when observing, studying, and writing about these issues. Drawing the infographic was about the smallest part in all of that, and I had no budget to do it in any other way.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I published an infographic on economic gaslighting yesterday. This seems like the obvious follow-up: How to expand this image If you press CTRL or Command<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2026\/08\/05\/infographic-political-gaslighting\/\"><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":[136,204,35,16,240,147,118,174,224,106,223,97],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-94585","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-city-of-london","category-economic-justice","category-economics","category-ethics","category-images","category-inequality","category-labour","category-modern-monetary-theory","category-neoliberalism","category-politics","category-politics-of-care","category-tax-justice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94585","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=94585"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94585\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":94587,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94585\/revisions\/94587"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}