If we want a decent society ministers have to take their duties to regulate, to tax and to stamp out criminal abuse seriously. Ours treat all three as unnecessary.
Monday, November 28th, 2022There was an article in the Sunday Times yesterday on the creation of what are being called ‘burner companies’. The links are in this Tweet
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Another step on the way to global tax co-ordination
Thursday, November 24th, 2022The Guardian has reported that: In 2003 John Christensen and I were, we think, the first-ever civil society representatives to turn up at a UN
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Why the NIESR is wrong on interest payments on central bank reserve accounts
Monday, November 21st, 2022I have had a number of people draw my attention to an article by the National Institute for Economic and Social Research (NIESR) in which
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We are heading for an economic meltdown that could be avoided, but not with current government policies
Sunday, November 20th, 2022I posted this thread on Twitter this morning: I had a long discussion with a radio producer yesterday on what I thought was wrong with
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£136 billion of wasted government spending when the NHS is being massively underfunded
Friday, November 18th, 2022I posted this thread on Twitter this morning, summarising this post in a more accessible way: The government is going to pay our commercial banks
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Spending cuts will be £27 billion next year - which is the additional unnecessary sum the government is planning to pay in interest to the UK's banks next year
Friday, November 18th, 2022Forgive me if what follows is a little technical. It relates to an issue of massively important concern, which is the amount of interest that
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We can have the world we want, but we will have to tax more and to do that we have to redesign much of our economy
Tuesday, November 15th, 2022This article is in the Guardian this morning: This crisis did not happen by chance. It is the cumulative consequence of years of austerity that
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We're going to have austerity on the basis of some very dubious accounting for the national debt
Monday, November 14th, 2022I posted this thread on Twitter this morning: The UK’s national debt is a strange figure. For example, to most people’s surprise it includes all
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It really is time that the government got serious about fraud
Friday, November 11th, 2022My friend Prem (Lord) Sikka has drawn my attention to this question he asked in the House of Lords: This is the answer he was
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