As my new report on NHS funding shows, Sajid Javid is wrong: we do not need to charge people to use the NHS. We just need to tax more fairly
Saturday, January 21st, 2023I posted this thread on Twitter this morning because an immediate opportunity to use my new report n NHS funding arose when Sajid Javid took
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The NHS funding crisis - in The Mirror this morning
Saturday, January 21st, 2023My new report on funding the NHS, out this morning, also features in today’s Mirror newspaper: In fact, my report in this issue developed for
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Solving the NHS funding crisis: the video version
Saturday, January 21st, 2023This is the video explanation of today’s report on funding the NHS: The transcript is: Hello. I’m Richard Murphy. I’m professor of accounting at Sheffield
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The NHS funding crisis and how to solve it
Saturday, January 21st, 2023Working with Colin Hines as Finance for the Future, I have published this report this morning: At the core of this report is a simple
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ISAs must either be given a social purpose linked to the Green New Deal or be abolished
Monday, January 16th, 2023It seems that I am not alone in worrying about the tax relief on savings, on which I commented last week. Now the Resolution Foundation
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Starmer is talking totally irresponsible nonsense about the NHS
Sunday, January 15th, 2023I am trying, very hard, to keep calm this morning having read the following article on the front of the Sunday Telegraph: It is very
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Why are we subsiding the wealthy by £30bn a year?
Friday, January 13th, 2023I have just published this video, which is based on the Twitter thread published today: The transcript is as follows: New data published by the
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The wealthiest 10% in the UK get at least £30bn a year in subsidies for their savings each year - enough to pay for the NHS for 9 weeks
Friday, January 13th, 2023I published this thread on Twitter this morning: The government has just published new data on the cost of UK tax reliefs, which is the
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A sane government would stop the out-of-control autocrats at the Bank of England. Ours just applauds them
Tuesday, January 10th, 2023The Guardian has reported a speech by Bank of England chief economist Huw Pill, given in New York yesterday. In the speech, Pill said that
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