It’s time we took water nationalisation seriously: it is the only viable option for the industry
Tuesday, July 4th, 2023There is much discussion on the subject of the nationalisation of our water companies right now, with a lot of what is being said by
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The era of independent central banks should be over
Monday, July 3rd, 2023I took some time off writing over the weekend. That did not stop me musing. One strand of thought was on central banks, or rather
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England's water industry is environmentally insolvent
Thursday, June 29th, 2023I posted this thread on Twitter this morning. The report to which the thread relates is here. There has been much discussion about the likely
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HMRC have marked their own homework on the tax gap again and have awarded themselves a nice mark, as usual
Friday, June 23rd, 2023Yesterday was HMRC tax gap day – which is the day when they admit how much tax they did not collect, in their estimation. My standard joke
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David Cameron revealed his ignorance yesterday
Tuesday, June 20th, 2023As the BBC noted yesterday, former Prime Minister David Cameron appeared before the Covid inquiry yesterday. As they noted: Mr Cameron …. defended the austerity
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HMRC dissembled (at best) when proposing Making Tax Digital, as I exposed in 2017. Now it is time to end this fiasco.
Tuesday, June 13th, 2023As the FT noted yesterday: HM Revenue & Customs omitted key figures from its business case about how much its Making Tax Digital programme will
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How to fund Labour’s £28 billion spending plan, and more
Tuesday, June 13th, 2023My Green New Deal Group and Finance for the Future colleague, Colin Hines, has this letter in the Guardian this morning: Your editorial (9 June)
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Tackling some token gesture tax issues will not end the egregious inequality built into the UK tax system
Tuesday, June 6th, 2023The Good Law Project issued a press release this morning saying: Good Law Project and Dale Vince, founder of Ecotricity, have launched a legal challenge
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To Minsky, or not? That it the question.
Tuesday, June 6th, 2023As I mentioned yesterday, I spent six hours with Steve Keen yesterday. He cam down to see me in Ely, and we talked economics, MMT, annoying
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