Capital gains tax on homes: the next steps
Friday, September 29th, 2023I always thought that yesterday’s suggestion that capital gains tax be charged on people’s main residences would, first of all, be the most controversial suggestion
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Heathrow does not need a new runway. Only a naive belief in growth suggests that it does.
Thursday, September 28th, 2023The FT has an article this morning which asks: I have not read the piece in full. I did not need to do so to
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What will the UK do with its internal cimate refugees?
Tuesday, September 26th, 2023I had to go to the Fenland village of Somersham to get a Covid vaccine yesterday. Why the NHS directed me there, I do not
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Labour tribalism and and the illogical belief that Starmer’s party is anything but deeply neoliberal
Sunday, September 17th, 2023I got an interesting insight into the mindset of a surviving Labour Party member yesterday. My old friend, as that is what the person I
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There is no need to debate the triple lock for pensions: all the money needed to pay old age pensions can be found by making simple changes to the tax charges on the wealthy
Thursday, September 14th, 2023There is much discussion in the media this morning about a supposedly temporary suspension of the pension triple lock. The triple lock was a George
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The Tories are destroying the state by making working for it profoundly unattractive or unaffordable.
Tuesday, September 12th, 2023I noted these adjacent headlines on The Guardian homepage this morning: The message could not be clearer. The NHS and state education cannot recruit or
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Taxing wealth: in the Guardian this morning
Thursday, September 7th, 2023The TUC has this morning called for a national debate on the taxation of wealth. They have got wide coverage for doing so. I admit
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The private sector cannot deliver an NHS. When will politicians take note?
Thursday, August 31st, 2023This caught my eye in the FT yesterday: As the report notes: US health insurer Centene is selling its chain of GP clinics, as well
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Wes Streeting really should start talking sense
Tuesday, August 29th, 2023As The Guardian reports this morning: [Wes] Streeting said on Monday that a Labour government would offer incentives for GP practices in England where patients
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