On being officially old
Thursday, March 21st, 2024I am 66 years old this morning, and so am officially an old age pensioner. So too is my twin brother, with whom, rather unsurprisingly,
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Israel and its allies - including the UK - are going to deliver a planned famine in Gaza
Wednesday, March 20th, 2024The IPC describes itself as follows in its website: The Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) is an innovative multi-partner initiative for improving food security
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Irish people see their history in Palestinians' eyes
Wednesday, March 20th, 2024This Tweet includes words that I think to be important from the Irish Taoiseach (prime minister): I think he really does reflect Irish feeling when
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The introduction to the Taxing Wealth Report 2024
Wednesday, March 20th, 2024Introduction Taxing Wealth Report published I have already published a short summary of the Taxing Wealth Report 2024. However, the report also needed an introduction,
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The depravity of Rachel Reeves' Mais lecture
Tuesday, March 19th, 2024It seems that everyone with time on their hands and nothing constructive to think about is talking about Rachael Reeves Mais lecture speech to be
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Are HM Revenue & Customs intent on making the right amount of tax as hard as possible?
Tuesday, March 19th, 2024One of my arguments in the Taxing Wealth Report 2024 was that HM Revenue & Customs should be transformed to make the UK tax system
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We need an economics that prioritises the needs of people
Tuesday, March 19th, 2024I have written this morning about the costs that will arise as a result of our need to make good on decades of underinvestment in
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Lessons from Japan and the Bank of England: monetary policy cannot be used to control inflation
Tuesday, March 19th, 2024As the FT reports this morning: The Bank of Japan has ended an era of negative interest rates, raising borrowing costs for the first time
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Who will survive in the face of the need for essential services? Will it be the landlord and the banker, or the people? That is the question.
Tuesday, March 19th, 2024This was posted in the Financial Times over the weekend but remains well worth sharing because of its broader significance: Parts of South Africa’s largest city
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