The danger of the KISS principle in politics
Wednesday, June 27th, 2018The KISS principle is that people should ‘Keep It Simple, Stupid’. The problem is that politicians think they have to do just that. The result was
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Imagining a new order in the countries currently called the UK
Saturday, June 23rd, 2018Saturday morning is a time for reflection. And so I have done just that, on a week when the Brexit Bill passed through the House
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It's time to throw off fear
Monday, May 28th, 2018Ian McWhirter in the Sunday Herald newspaper described me in this way yesterday: The Keynesian finance expert, Richard Murphy, of Tax Research – a prominent ally
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The Scottish Growth Commission looks like it is buying into far too many right wing myths on tax
Saturday, May 26th, 2018THE Scottish Growth Commission report is intended to provoke discussion. I am not enamoured by its suggestions on either monetary or fiscal economic policy, but what
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The Scottish Growth Commission gets its economics very badly wrong
Friday, May 25th, 2018The 354 page report of the Scottish Growth Commission was published this morning. But you don’t need to read it all. I admit I had
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It's time for MPs to reject the UK's failing political leadership and act in the interests of the country as a whole
Tuesday, May 15th, 2018Jeremey Corbyn has made his Brexit position clear: he wants a hard Brexit and nothing less will do. If reports of a meeting of the Parliamentary
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Labour has to make up its mind soon or become another Brexit casualty
Sunday, May 6th, 2018I am bemused by Labour’s policy on Brexit. The Tories are shredding themselves on the issue, even at Cabinet level, where they cannot agree on
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The referendum was meant to cure Tory divisions - but now those divisions are set to pull the government down
Wednesday, May 2nd, 2018As Politics Home reports this morning: The Telegraph reports that the 60 members of the arch-eurosceptic European Research Group – chaired by Jacob Rees-Mogg –
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All I want is for a dose of sanity to prevail
Tuesday, May 1st, 2018As the Guardian reports this morning: The government has suffered a heavy defeat on a crucial Lords vote. Labour said the amendment, which is the seventh
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