Sweeping corruption out of politics
Monday, January 23rd, 2023I posted this short thread on Twitter this morning: I have never been enamoured by corruption. My dislike of everything to do with it motivated
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What did Nadhim Zahawi do wrong?
Monday, January 23rd, 2023I talked about Nadhim Zahawi’s tax affairs on Owen Jones’ YouTube programme yesterday. The discussion covers the first 22 minutes of the programme:
As my new report on NHS funding shows, Sajid Javid is wrong: we do not need to charge people to use the NHS. We just need to tax more fairly
Saturday, January 21st, 2023I posted this thread on Twitter this morning because an immediate opportunity to use my new report n NHS funding arose when Sajid Javid took
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Solving the NHS funding crisis: the video version
Saturday, January 21st, 2023This is the video explanation of today’s report on funding the NHS: The transcript is: Hello. I’m Richard Murphy. I’m professor of accounting at Sheffield
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The NHS funding crisis and how to solve it
Saturday, January 21st, 2023Working with Colin Hines as Finance for the Future, I have published this report this morning: At the core of this report is a simple
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Right wing politicians are engaged in economic civil war on the people of this country, and it’s time for that to be said out loud
Friday, January 20th, 2023The growing political crisis in the USA seems hard to avoid this morning. For historical reasons the US government is subject to borrowing limits that
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Freeports only exist to promote the ideas of far-right politicians who hate the idea of regulation and tax. Why are we tolerating them?
Friday, January 20th, 2023As I noted in my column in The National yesterday: My argument was this: [Freeports] exist to promote the ideas of far-right politicians who hate
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Port Greenwash
Thursday, January 19th, 2023I recorded this podcast with Craig Dalzell of the CoomonWeal think tank in Scotland yesterday: As they said of it: This week Craig talks to
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The Tories are choosing to impose misery on the country when none is needed
Wednesday, January 18th, 2023I posted this thread on Twitter this morning: Steve Barclay, the Health Secretary, is saying today that if nurses get inflation matching pay rises patients
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