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If Keir Starmer understood this one blog post he could transform the UK www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/06...
If Keir Starmer understood this one blog post he could transform the UK
As the Financial Times noted yesterday:
Sir Keir Starmer has rejected calls from senior Labour figures to fill a growing fiscal hole with big tax rises, warning: “I don’t think you can tax your way to...
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June 3, 2025 at 6:02 AM
If Keir Starmer understood this one blog post he could transform the UK www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/06...
The problem of the unknown knowns www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/05...
The problem of the unknown knowns
Donald Rumsfeld got his famous quote on knowns wrong: he ignored the unknown knowns, and they are a huge issue in modern politics.
This is the audio version:
This is the transcript:
We've got...
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May 22, 2025 at 7:39 AM
The problem of the unknown knowns www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/05...
Why is mental health the government’s responsibility? www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/03...
Absolutely! And much more could be added about the effects of the education system on mental health.
Absolutely! And much more could be added about the effects of the education system on mental health.
Why is mental health the government’s responsibility?
This comment was made by someone called TomB on this blog yesterday. I hope he will forgive me for lightly editing it for use here, but the sentiments are ones I found myself strongly agreeing with:
I...
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March 18, 2025 at 8:25 AM
Why is mental health the government’s responsibility? www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/03...
Absolutely! And much more could be added about the effects of the education system on mental health.
Absolutely! And much more could be added about the effects of the education system on mental health.
open.substack.com/pub/democrac...
Useful analysis
Useful analysis
“The poster child for autocracy”: how to understand Trump’s regime
Author and legal expert Kim Lane Schepelle explains Trump’s power grab and what can be done to stop the destruction of American democracy
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February 15, 2025 at 7:54 AM
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Useful analysis
Useful analysis
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Oh wow - this is a very very cool tool. Hats off to @danneidle.bsky.social and his team for offering a public service that surely Companies House should be providing more of taxpolicy.org.uk/2025/01/31/t...
Companies House failed to spot a £100 trillion fake company
We’ve found hundreds. of suspect companies with false accounts using a new automated search tool
taxpolicy.org.uk
January 31, 2025 at 8:50 AM
Oh wow - this is a very very cool tool. Hats off to @danneidle.bsky.social and his team for offering a public service that surely Companies House should be providing more of taxpolicy.org.uk/2025/01/31/t...
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Have you heard that @davidwengrow.bsky.social is currently writing the sequel for #TheDawnOfEverything and that it is titled #TheThirdFreedom ?
January 27, 2025 at 7:39 AM
Have you heard that @davidwengrow.bsky.social is currently writing the sequel for #TheDawnOfEverything and that it is titled #TheThirdFreedom ?
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“None is more innocent than a child, their death the most unassailable proof of the injustice of this war; how it was conducted, accepted and supported.”
Devastating and vital by @nesrinemalik.bsky.social on the lost children of Gaza. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Devastating and vital by @nesrinemalik.bsky.social on the lost children of Gaza. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Goodbye to the lost children of Gaza. You were loved, you are remembered, you did not deserve it | Nesrine Malik
There is no way to rationalise the horrors inflicted on Gaza’s innocent children. Now is the time to mourn them fully, says columnist Nesrine Malik
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January 27, 2025 at 8:51 AM
“None is more innocent than a child, their death the most unassailable proof of the injustice of this war; how it was conducted, accepted and supported.”
Devastating and vital by @nesrinemalik.bsky.social on the lost children of Gaza. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Devastating and vital by @nesrinemalik.bsky.social on the lost children of Gaza. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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1/2 This was a revelation..: "A fourth member of the mafia, Roelof Botha, the grandson of the apartheid regime’s last foreign minister, Pik Botha, and former PayPal CFO, has kept a lower political profile but remains close to Musk." www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
How the roots of the ‘PayPal mafia’ extend to apartheid South Africa
Elon Musk grew up with the privileges of a stratified racial order and Peter Thiel lived in a city that venerated Hitler
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January 27, 2025 at 8:44 AM
1/2 This was a revelation..: "A fourth member of the mafia, Roelof Botha, the grandson of the apartheid regime’s last foreign minister, Pik Botha, and former PayPal CFO, has kept a lower political profile but remains close to Musk." www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
Goodbye to the lost children of Gaza. You were loved, you are remembered, you did not deserve it
January 27, 2025 at 8:49 AM
Goodbye to the lost children of Gaza. You were loved, you are remembered, you did not deserve it
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New video! 👀
GBNews has a brand new presenter to fill the gap in their anti-migrant coverage!
His name is Matthew Goodwin & luckily enough he knows HOW TO STOP AN INVASION!
Is this the solution at last? I looked into it... www.youtube.com/watch?v=YyKI...
GBNews has a brand new presenter to fill the gap in their anti-migrant coverage!
His name is Matthew Goodwin & luckily enough he knows HOW TO STOP AN INVASION!
Is this the solution at last? I looked into it... www.youtube.com/watch?v=YyKI...
GBNews’ new man SOLVES the small boats crisis
YouTube video by Zoe Gardner
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December 28, 2024 at 11:08 AM
New video! 👀
GBNews has a brand new presenter to fill the gap in their anti-migrant coverage!
His name is Matthew Goodwin & luckily enough he knows HOW TO STOP AN INVASION!
Is this the solution at last? I looked into it... www.youtube.com/watch?v=YyKI...
GBNews has a brand new presenter to fill the gap in their anti-migrant coverage!
His name is Matthew Goodwin & luckily enough he knows HOW TO STOP AN INVASION!
Is this the solution at last? I looked into it... www.youtube.com/watch?v=YyKI...
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Never mind WASPI women, the UK govt has *never* contacted 4 million UK permanent residents telling them they need to upgrade their residence permits. Grace period till March? My 70+ yr old Windrush-era parents (arrived 1960s) with vignettes can’t even apply for eVisas until BRP approved in May 🤦♂️
December 22, 2024 at 11:45 PM
Never mind WASPI women, the UK govt has *never* contacted 4 million UK permanent residents telling them they need to upgrade their residence permits. Grace period till March? My 70+ yr old Windrush-era parents (arrived 1960s) with vignettes can’t even apply for eVisas until BRP approved in May 🤦♂️
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"Why should Ireland be a special case? Perhaps I flatter myself, but I’d like to think that even if I were British, or American, or German, or Dutch, I would still be able to look at the campaign of slaughter and destruction Israel is waging, and see it for the moral outrage that it is."
The mystery is not why we Irish have responded to Israel’s barbarism. It’s why others have not
I don’t believe in the idea of being on the right side of history. The histories of the future are none of our concern. Our concern is the present
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December 21, 2024 at 3:57 PM
"Why should Ireland be a special case? Perhaps I flatter myself, but I’d like to think that even if I were British, or American, or German, or Dutch, I would still be able to look at the campaign of slaughter and destruction Israel is waging, and see it for the moral outrage that it is."
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Also, courage is contagious. I continue to stand against American fascism in the hope that others will take heart, too.
December 23, 2024 at 1:55 AM
Also, courage is contagious. I continue to stand against American fascism in the hope that others will take heart, too.
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Is Trump using legal threats to close down debate? youtu.be/tdRnQdDZTSE?... A free press is an essential part of a functioning democracy. If legal threats from Trump close that down, what is left?
Is Trump using legal threats to close down debate?
YouTube video by Richard J Murphy
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December 23, 2024 at 7:06 AM
Is Trump using legal threats to close down debate? youtu.be/tdRnQdDZTSE?... A free press is an essential part of a functioning democracy. If legal threats from Trump close that down, what is left?
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‘Tiny broken bodies, rotting babies, flattened corpses, mass graves, levelled neighbourhoods.
It is a spectacle of slaughter. All unfolding in plain sight, livestreamed and posted by Palestinian citizens and journalists, witnessed by outsiders, and described by Israelis themselves.’
It is a spectacle of slaughter. All unfolding in plain sight, livestreamed and posted by Palestinian citizens and journalists, witnessed by outsiders, and described by Israelis themselves.’
A consensus is emerging: Israel is committing genocide in Gaza. Where is the action? | Nesrine Malik
A consensus is emerging: Israel is committing genocide in Gaza. Where is the action? | Nesrine Malik
It may feel hopeless to see supportive states continue to back Israel, but bearing witness matters for future reckoning
A consensus is building. On 5 December, Amnesty International concluded after an investigation that “Israel has committed and is…
www.theguardian.com
December 23, 2024 at 6:41 AM
‘Tiny broken bodies, rotting babies, flattened corpses, mass graves, levelled neighbourhoods.
It is a spectacle of slaughter. All unfolding in plain sight, livestreamed and posted by Palestinian citizens and journalists, witnessed by outsiders, and described by Israelis themselves.’
It is a spectacle of slaughter. All unfolding in plain sight, livestreamed and posted by Palestinian citizens and journalists, witnessed by outsiders, and described by Israelis themselves.’
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The old narratives are dead. We are waiting for the new to be born www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2024/12... Economic growth has disappeared, maybe for good this time. A finite planet has reached its limits. So, what do we do now? Give in to the billionaires, or build a new vision of political economy?
The old narratives are dead. We are waiting for the new to be born
The Office for National Statistics has reported this morning that:
UK real gross domestic product (GDP) is estimated to have shown no growth in Quarter 3 (July to Sept) 2024, revised down from the ...
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December 23, 2024 at 7:44 AM
The old narratives are dead. We are waiting for the new to be born www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2024/12... Economic growth has disappeared, maybe for good this time. A finite planet has reached its limits. So, what do we do now? Give in to the billionaires, or build a new vision of political economy?
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The power structures within society are all wrong www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2024/12... How can a vicar talk about the merits for the donor of giving to charities addressing the consequences of poverty and never ask why people might be poor. Hasn’t she really missed the whole point of Christianity?
The power structures within society are all wrong – and no one is saying so
As I write this I should be listening to Kemi Badenoch on the BBC’s Today Programme, but she appears to have nothing to say of any consequence - and is actually making a virtue of that fact - so I th...
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December 23, 2024 at 8:33 AM
The power structures within society are all wrong www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2024/12... How can a vicar talk about the merits for the donor of giving to charities addressing the consequences of poverty and never ask why people might be poor. Hasn’t she really missed the whole point of Christianity?
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Ruchir Sharma:"Virtually every Wall Street analyst predicts US stocks will continue outperforming the rest of the world in 2025. But all this enthusiasm only tends to confirm the bubble is at a very advanced stage…"
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How ‘the mother of all bubbles’ will pop
It’s time to bet against American exceptionalism
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December 16, 2024 at 5:47 PM
Ruchir Sharma:"Virtually every Wall Street analyst predicts US stocks will continue outperforming the rest of the world in 2025. But all this enthusiasm only tends to confirm the bubble is at a very advanced stage…"
on.ft.com/4fji5mn
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Inc yours truly...
Economists and policy experts warn Reeves against City deregulation (I am a signatory to the letter).
A folly - will reduce consumer protection, encourage reckless risk taking, inflate asset prices, increase financial crime.
Walking into the next crash?
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
A folly - will reduce consumer protection, encourage reckless risk taking, inflate asset prices, increase financial crime.
Walking into the next crash?
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
Economists and policy experts warn Reeves against City deregulation
Nobel laureate Joseph Stiglitz among 50 signatories of statement that points to risks to Labour’s wider aims
www.theguardian.com
December 16, 2024 at 3:20 PM
Inc yours truly...
Who knows whether our drinking water is safe?
December 9, 2024 at 10:17 AM
Who knows whether our drinking water is safe?
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NEW 🚨 Britain's electoral laws are broken - but successive governments have done nothing
Musk's proposed $100million donation to Nigel Farage shows we are on the cusp of a real crisis for British democracy
But it can be fixed. Here's how, by me
democracyforsale.substack.com/p/musks-100m...
Musk's proposed $100million donation to Nigel Farage shows we are on the cusp of a real crisis for British democracy
But it can be fixed. Here's how, by me
democracyforsale.substack.com/p/musks-100m...
Musk’s $100m to Farage will break our democracy
Keir Starmer needs to fix Britain’s broken electoral laws now - if he doesn’t, we will all suffer the consequences
democracyforsale.substack.com
December 1, 2024 at 12:56 PM
NEW 🚨 Britain's electoral laws are broken - but successive governments have done nothing
Musk's proposed $100million donation to Nigel Farage shows we are on the cusp of a real crisis for British democracy
But it can be fixed. Here's how, by me
democracyforsale.substack.com/p/musks-100m...
Musk's proposed $100million donation to Nigel Farage shows we are on the cusp of a real crisis for British democracy
But it can be fixed. Here's how, by me
democracyforsale.substack.com/p/musks-100m...
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Confronting the Climate Crisis: Essential Strategies for Effective Adaptation
The Climate Crisis Seems to be Speeding-up — So what can we do?
My article here:
medium.com/@clive.lewis...
The Climate Crisis Seems to be Speeding-up — So what can we do?
My article here:
medium.com/@clive.lewis...
November 28, 2024 at 8:40 PM
Confronting the Climate Crisis: Essential Strategies for Effective Adaptation
The Climate Crisis Seems to be Speeding-up — So what can we do?
My article here:
medium.com/@clive.lewis...
The Climate Crisis Seems to be Speeding-up — So what can we do?
My article here:
medium.com/@clive.lewis...
The government’s latest accounts show its debt’s fallen massively
November 29, 2024 at 9:26 AM
The government’s latest accounts show its debt’s fallen massively