Tax cuts have not driven investment in the UK
Thursday, September 8th, 2022Truss claims that corporation tax cuts induce foreign direct investment in the UK. This chart of FDI is from the World Bank: The data is
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Truss's plan to borrow to spend is inexcusable when there are better options available
Thursday, September 8th, 2022I have posted this thread to Twitter this morning: Truss apparently has an energy plan. What is more we are to hear about it today.
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Yesterday was so bad that we have no choice now but think about the world we want after neoliberalism
Wednesday, September 7th, 2022I posted this thread on Twitter this morning: Yesterday was bad. It was, in fact, very, very bad. If Johnson was a disaster, Truss has
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It will take luck and political genius to avoid unrest in the next year
Tuesday, September 6th, 2022I have already mentioned commenting on Radio 2 yesterday, and what was discussed, in another post this morning. An hour or so after doing that
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Truss does not care
Monday, September 5th, 2022I have just posted this thread on Twitter: I took the weekend off writing. I deliberately wanted a break from commenting on the crisis that
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The EU gets the need to suspend markets in the public interest: will Liz Truss?
Monday, September 5th, 2022Andrew Marr has picked up on my ideas for energy market reform in The New Statesman: Further, it means tearing up the present regulatory system,
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Starting next week we can address the real crisis - much of which will be made in Westminster with the rest being manufactured in the Bank of England
Friday, September 2nd, 2022At long last, the Tory leadership election hustings are over, and the votes have been cast. Next week we will have what is supposed to
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Truss will usher in the era of the politics of neglect
Thursday, September 1st, 2022The Tory party leadership hustings are over. Only extreme optimists think Sunak has won, and even they know that his doing so would be a
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We need a proper windfall profits tax
Wednesday, August 31st, 2022According to Bloomberg this morning: UK gas producers and electricity generators may make excess profits totaling as much as £170 billion ($199 billion) over the
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