The Green New Deal amendment to the Queen’s Speech
Wednesday, October 16th, 2019Caroline Lucas tabled the following amednement to the Queen’s Speech resolution this morning: Amendment (a) Caroline Lucas At end add ‘but believe that the measures
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The cost / benefit analysis of No Deal
Sunday, September 29th, 2019I had a friend who has now decided to become a Brexit Party parliamentary candidate. There are some things friendship cannot survive. But I did
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A Green New Deal for Scotland (and pretty much anywhere else come to that) : A long read for the weekend
Sunday, September 1st, 2019I republish this from the CommonWeal website, where it was published on Friday. My thanks to Ben Wray for editing it: Richard Murphy, a member
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Funding the Green New Deal - Part Two
Saturday, August 31st, 2019I have already published an explanation showing that the simple reallocation of the tax incentivised savings of UK taxpayers could more than fund the costs
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There’s a revolution happening right in front of us and most politicians haven’t even noticed
Tuesday, August 6th, 2019It’s silly season. I reviewed the news this morning and nothing jumped out as requiring comment, in itself. At the same time the whole news
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If the NHS is not a charity why are private providers?
Tuesday, July 16th, 2019I don’t give a great deal of attention to Council Tax here. Peter May at Progressive Pulse (of which I am the director) does. He
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Fair Tax Councils
Thursday, July 11th, 2019The Fair Tax Mark has just announced this development in its work. I am a director of the Fair Tax Mark: The Fair Tax Mark
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There are record levels of concern about the tax behaviour of business
Friday, July 5th, 2019This post was originally on the Fair Tax Mark web site. The Fair Tax Mark is holding its annual conference today. I am a founder-director
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The UK tax gap is £90 billion a year
Wednesday, June 19th, 2019I gather HMRC will be publishing their latest tax gap figures this week. The last are here. I can make a fairly confident prediction. The
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