YouTube short election questions: why won't UK politicians end child poverty?
Saturday, May 25th, 2024This is today’s YouTube short election question: Yesterday’s question was viewed by more than. 4,000 people. This is the transcript for this one: If only
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You have to tax wealth to grow an economy
Friday, May 24th, 2024I posted a new YouTube video this morning in which I argue that politicians refuse to tax the wealthy because, they say, they might run
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We need an end to Bank of England independence and the power of the Treasury
Friday, May 24th, 2024Nick Macpherson, who was for some time the permanent secretary (or civil service boss) at the UK Treasury, has an article in the FT today,
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Questions to ask politcians in this election
Thursday, May 23rd, 2024The most useful thing I think I can do this morning is suggest questions to ask politicians in this election. A thread. The following list
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A dull sense of dread hangs over this election
Thursday, May 23rd, 2024I won’t be the first, or last, to say this, but I wake this morning with a sense of dull dread. The idea that we
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There's one simple solution to every crisis that Labour thinks it will face. All it has to do is tax the wealthy more.
Wednesday, May 22nd, 2024As the FT noted yesterday, Labour’s chief executive, Sue Gray, has drawn up a short list of crises that might hit a new Labour government.
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The government is going to lie about the accounting for the cost of the infected blood scandal
Tuesday, May 21st, 2024The government is expected to make an announcement today on how it will pay the compensation due to the victims of the infected blood scandal.
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The cost of compensating victims of the contaminated blood scandal needn't require cuts in government spending
Monday, May 20th, 2024I posted this very short thread to Twitter last night: This story is going to be everywhere in the news over the next couple of
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UK auditors are rubbish at their jobs
Friday, May 17th, 2024I posted this video to YouTube this morning. In it I argue that UK auditors are rubbish at their jobs. Major audit failures – on
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