Lord Geidt has highlighted the absence of ethics in No.10. The absence of ideas in politics will, however, be harder to solve
Wednesday, June 1st, 2022I am not sure that the No.10 ethics adviser, Lord Geidt, intended to yesterday set himself up as the person to bring Johnson down, but
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There is a magic money tree right at the heart of the UK government, mandated by law and in operation since 1866, at least
Monday, May 30th, 2022This paper was published last week: The paper has the following abstract: This paper constitutes a first detailed institutional analysis of the UK Government’s expenditure,
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HM Revenue & Customs really do not want to collect tax from the wealthy
Monday, May 30th, 2022I campaigned for automatic information exchange from tax havens for a long time. Perhaps my most important paper on the issue was published in 2009.
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Of course the Tories have to lie: their beliefs and actions are in fundamental and inevitable conflict with each other
Sunday, May 29th, 2022I posted this thread on Twitter this morning: We know we have a government that lies. We know it is corrupt. And its big new
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Sunak's bailout package was a massive bung to the energy sector that will not stop inflation, but will increase inequality
Friday, May 27th, 2022I tweeted this thread this morning: As I made clear yesterday, the package of measures introduced yesterday by Chancellor Rishi Sunak failed to address the
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Sunak failed badly today
Thursday, May 26th, 2022Chancellor Sunak delivered a sticking plaster to save Boris Johnson with measures to tackle the cost of living crisis today. He did not deliver what
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Sunak’s glory days have long gone: today will see a miserable package of measures that will fall far short of the required level of action
Thursday, May 26th, 2022Rishi Sunak is to announce measures to tackle the cost of living crisis today. He will supposedly spend £10 billion. He will also announce a
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Johnson’s survival will mark the start of a new assault on our freedoms
Thursday, May 26th, 2022After a few days of disruption I admit to being on a late start this morning. What I did manage to do was follow much
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Inflation will go away - because it always does - and in the meantime here’s how to deal with it
Friday, May 20th, 2022One of the arguments that Danny Blanchflower and I are making in our two person opposition to the prevailing establishment thinking on inflation is that
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