The Rwanda Bill contravenes human rights and the Tories do not care
Monday, February 12th, 2024These are the lead paragraphs from an FT report this morning: The Tories will continue with the Bill nonetheless. That’s why we know they are
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Twitter still has the power to deliver
Monday, February 12th, 2024I know many readers of this blog do not like Twitter, or X. But it still has the power to deliver. Two of my Tweets
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The fact that 30% of the UK population have savings of less than £1,000 is not their fault
Monday, February 12th, 2024The Resolution Foundation published a report this morning which suggests that at least 30% of UK households have savings of less than £1,000 and are,
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Tax and money flows within the economy
Monday, February 12th, 2024This post is the third of the three that relate to the economic ideas underpinning the Taxing Wealth Report 2024. The first was on tax
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Labour's ideological vacuum
Sunday, February 11th, 2024As Larry Elliott has noted in The Observer today: After last week’s emasculation of its green prosperity plan, [Labour’s] storyline has changed. It now reads:
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The cappuccino economy: a metaphor for our times
Sunday, February 11th, 2024Clive Parry wrote in the comments on this blog yesterday that: We need to reverse the line argument “We can only have public services if
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Pragmatism as an exercise in hearing the music
Sunday, February 11th, 2024I listened to an interview Lewis Goodall did with union leader Mick Lynch yesterday and liked a lot of what Mick Lynch had to say.
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‘Revenue’ means to come back. Tax revenue quite literally recovers money already spent
Sunday, February 11th, 2024I noticed part of an old post of mine being cited on Twitter yesterday. It was as follows: This is fascinating. What it shows is the
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UK politician's credit card con-trick on the people of this country
Saturday, February 10th, 2024I posted this thread on Twitter this morning: Quite extraordinarily, leading politicians, including Kier Starmer and Rachel Reeves have in the last few days returned
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