What is the point of power if it is not to help the most vulnerable and least well off, which there is no sign that Labour will do?
Sunday, March 17th, 2024As the Observer noted yesterday: Schools are finding beds, providing showers for pupils and washing uniforms as child poverty spirals out of control, headteachers from
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How wrong can Policy Exchange be?
Thursday, March 14th, 2024I have noted in a mail from The Telegraph this morning thay they say: Britain must save more money to boost the economy through a
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The UK does not have a national debt but does instead offer a range of national savings products
Thursday, March 14th, 2024My evidence to the House of Lords Economic Affairs committee on the sustainability of the UK’s national debt is now available on the parliamentary website;
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On books, arguments and alternatives
Monday, March 11th, 2024Universities have what we call reading weeks. As an alternative I have awarded myself a thinking week, officially starting today, but which actually began over
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Why is everything so difficult for Rachel Reeves?
Monday, March 11th, 2024I watched some of Rachael Reeves’ interviews over the weekend. I have seen many before. One of the recurring themes is that she is not
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What's next?
Friday, March 8th, 2024The Taxing Wealth Report 2024 production process is coming to a close. Work on it has dominated my time over the last eight months. Writing
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What the Taxing Wealth Report 2024 has not done, and what might happen next
Friday, March 8th, 2024There are a few bits of the final Taxing Wealth Report 2024, in whichever format it is produced, that I have written but which have
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Sometime soon Labour needs to talk about the macroeconomic reality that we face, because it is probably nothing like as good as Hunt predicts
Thursday, March 7th, 2024According to the Chancellor, all that matters about the Budget is that he meets his fiscal rule. For reasons that no one is aware of
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We have a tax time bomb waiting to explode in the UK. Is Labour going to let it go off?
Wednesday, March 6th, 2024I have spent much of this afternoon, a) talking to journalists and b) trying to work out how the Budget adds up. The first task
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