Brexit delivers Ireland a trade surplus with the UK, for the first time ever
Thursday, June 24th, 2021As The Independent has reported: A collapse in British exports to the Irish Republic since Brexit has handed Dublin an extraordinary trade surplus with London, new figures show. The
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The game is up for tax havens: they should be shedding their tears for the end of their ill gotten gains in private
Wednesday, June 23rd, 2021As the FT has reported: Bermuda’s political and business elite is responding to the G7 push for a minimum corporate income tax as it would
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When the bankers to the world's wealthiest people think inequality is out of hand surely it is time to act?
Wednesday, June 23rd, 2021Credit Suisse has published its new Global Wealth Report: There is one message that needs to be noted from the report, above all others. It
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The real Covid financial crisis is increasing inequality - which means the wealthy must pay more tax
Monday, June 21st, 2021As I have already explained this morning, there is no Covid debt crisis. The UK national debt hardly increased in 2020/21. And the cost of
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There is not a single political front on which the Tories are winning right now
Sunday, June 20th, 2021I do not wish to be accused of optimism, but I simply cannot see how support for the Tories can last. As I have long
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The message from Amersham and Chesham is that progressive alliances work - and that people want them
Friday, June 18th, 2021I have been watching politics for fifty years now. In that case I should have learned that there is nothing to be learned from a
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The morning view
Wednesday, June 16th, 2021This does not happen very often, but I woke up this morning, immediately picked up the iPad to review the news, as is my usual
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Our tax system is as biased as that in the USA, and all with the intention of making the rich richer
Tuesday, June 15th, 2021US think tank Problublica recently published a report that it said: demolishes the cornerstone myth of the American tax system: that everyone pays their fair
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The world needs Covid 19 vaccines and equality more than it needs modern monetary theory
Monday, June 14th, 2021The biggest crisis facing the world right now is the lack of Covid vaccines. There are ample other issues coming on close behind, I concede,
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