What do young people need to know about money?
Saturday, May 20th, 2023For reasons that will become more apparent over the next week or so I have been giving some thought to what might be on a
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Extraordinary wealth carries with it the obligation to pay tax
Friday, May 19th, 2023As the Guardian has noted of the Sunday Times UK Rich List, which has apparently been published today, even though it is not a Sunday:
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Millions in the UK are living with wholly unnecessary and ultimately catastrophic debt crises
Wednesday, May 17th, 2023The FT has reported that: To put this in context, there are about 33 million taxpayers in the UK. There is likely to be a
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Labour has a plan, but no hint of a strategy or any idea on delivery
Monday, May 15th, 2023I have been asked by several commentators to comment on the rumoured draft Labour manifesto published on the Labour List website. Ever obedient (?) I
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Robert Owen Day - and the need for a new economic paradigm for the left
Saturday, May 13th, 2023These were the notes I used to prepare for the talk I gave this morning to Co-operatives Wales today to mark Robert Owen Day. I
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PWC are in trouble in Australia. The suggestion that they shared government secrets does not look good
Friday, May 12th, 2023As the FT has reported this morning: PwC is racing to contain the global fallout of an Australian leak scandal on its business after it
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We can use AI in the economy but only if we are willing to tax capital more heavily
Wednesday, May 10th, 2023There is much discussion on the media this morning on the possibility that AI will cost tens, if not hundreds, of millions of jobs in
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Did a Tory Vice-Chair mean to oppose democracy, or did he just make a mistake?
Monday, May 8th, 2023As the Guardian has noted: The Conservative party’s deputy chair, Lee Anderson, has said that anti-monarchist campaigners should emigrate rather than use their right to
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Starmer makes me despair
Tuesday, May 2nd, 2023Keir Starmer was interviewed by the ever-affable Justin Webb on the Tory Today programme on BBC Radio 4 this morning. Paul Waugh, chief political correspondent
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