Budget messaging
Monday, March 4th, 2024I was on LBC radio yesterday, talking about this week’s budget . At 9 am this morning I will be on Nicky Campbell’s show on
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The Taxing Wealth Report 2024: a pre-Budget summary
Monday, March 4th, 2024The Taxing Wealth Report 2024 and the Budget In anticipation of the UK budget this week, I thought it important to provide a summary of
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There is no ‘other’
Sunday, March 3rd, 2024I put this on Twitter last night: What Sunak and his far-right allies want to create with their pernicious rhetoric of unity, to which Labour
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The Tory view of British values
Saturday, March 2nd, 2024Rishi Sunak spoke yesterday of the need for the government, police and others to stand up against those who oppose British values. But, just what
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You no longer need to be paranoid to think the government are coming for you when they most probably are.
Saturday, March 2nd, 2024This might well be the best commentary I have read on Sunak’s announcement yesterday. To put this in context, Caroline Slocock was Thatcher’s private secretary.
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Tax havens exist to undermine democracy. They are a fundamental threat to our way of life.
Saturday, March 2nd, 2024Not long after I first began to work on tax haven reform more than twenty years ago I realised that the problem that these places
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What happens when the Prime Minister thinks that the electorate are extremists?
Saturday, March 2nd, 2024I posted this thread in Twitter last night: I then followed up with this: I am not sure that there is much to add barring
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The email's timing
Friday, March 1st, 2024On a fairly low turnout, the polling on the time when this blog’s daily email update should be sent out was pretty clear: The time
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Elsewhere....
Friday, March 1st, 2024Danny Blanchflower and I had an article in Bylines yesterday: I hope it’s worth going over there to read. And for those looking for political
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