The Taxing Wealth Report – an update
Thursday, February 8th, 2024I have this morning published what I think will be the pre-penultimate section of the Taxing Wealth Report 2024 this morning, dealing with necessary changes
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The Taxing Wealth Report: Removing existing anomalies within the UK system that prevent the delivery of tax justice might cost £19.1 billion per annum
Thursday, February 8th, 2024I have this morning published the latest note in my series that will make up the Taxing Wealth Report 2024. This latest note suggests that if
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Truss is promoting an agenda that explicitly permits the powerful with a grudge to abuse anyone they wish with impunity
Wednesday, February 7th, 2024I should be grateful to GB News. They appear to be the only news organisation that was willing to carry verbatim extracts from Liz Truss’s
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Labour's (wrong) choice
Monday, February 5th, 2024Labour is putting its faith in business. That faith is that business will fund it, because it has alienated its membership. That faith expects that
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Business as usual is not just failing government in the UK; it is also failing business itself
Monday, February 5th, 2024There is a tendency to say that everything that is going wrong in our society is down to government underfunding, and then to blame neoliberal
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This country does not need a smaller state, but a more active one
Sunday, February 4th, 2024Sometimes I have to agree with Martin Wolf at the FT. This afternoon he has written this: As Nicholas Stern has noted in the FT,
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Why repaying the national debt is not a good idea
Friday, February 2nd, 2024Earlier this week, I published a proposed glossary entry on the true nature of our so-called national debt. This won a lot of praise, but
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If you set out to do nothing you will achieve less than that, which is going to be Labour’s fate
Friday, February 2nd, 2024I did, as usual, have a column published by The National yesterday. In it I discussed the weaknesses in Labour’s plans for the financial services
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The Tory abuse of freedom
Thursday, February 1st, 2024As the Guardian notes this morning: The director of public prosecutions is appealing to the supreme court in an ongoing and expensive battle to overturn
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