@marhop1963.bsky.social
Chartered Accountant- retired to the beautiful Highlands. Scottish Independence please .
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The Telegraph’s political editor is saying, more subtly, what others are saying brutally.
January 27, 2026 at 12:55 PM
The Telegraph’s political editor is saying, more subtly, what others are saying brutally.
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UK politicians. If you don't follow up your statement of "we support international law" with actual, tangible consequences for breaches of international law, then you don't support international law. You support the US's invasion and are happy to defend it. Don't tell us otherwise.
January 4, 2026 at 9:42 AM
UK politicians. If you don't follow up your statement of "we support international law" with actual, tangible consequences for breaches of international law, then you don't support international law. You support the US's invasion and are happy to defend it. Don't tell us otherwise.
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In which I examine the accounts of a volume housebuilder to work out how much you are paying their shareholders to own your home.
In which I examine the accounts of a volume housebuilder to work out how much you are paying their shareholders to own your home.
When banks own housebuilders, house prices go up
In which I examine the accounts of a volume housebuilder to work out how much you are paying their shareholders to own your home.
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December 10, 2025 at 10:30 AM
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In which I examine the accounts of a volume housebuilder to work out how much you are paying their shareholders to own your home.
In which I examine the accounts of a volume housebuilder to work out how much you are paying their shareholders to own your home.
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Some reflections www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Vote for competent leaders, not entertainers – that’s what I wish the Covid report could say | Devi Sridhar
To prevent a future pandemic we’d need agile leadership, smart decision-making, humility and trustworthiness. How does one build those into a political system, asks Prof Devi Sridhar, chair of global ...
www.theguardian.com
November 21, 2025 at 6:31 PM
Some reflections www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Christmas gift giving is a zero sum game. Too much tit-for-tat ends up in tat, that wastes money and fills landfills.
Time for my annual ‘no unnecessary presents’ Christmas message (courtesy @itvmlshow.bsky.social )
Time for my annual ‘no unnecessary presents’ Christmas message (courtesy @itvmlshow.bsky.social )
Martin Lewis: Time to ban unnecessary Christmas presents!
YouTube video by Martin Lewis
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November 18, 2025 at 8:47 PM
Christmas gift giving is a zero sum game. Too much tit-for-tat ends up in tat, that wastes money and fills landfills.
Time for my annual ‘no unnecessary presents’ Christmas message (courtesy @itvmlshow.bsky.social )
Time for my annual ‘no unnecessary presents’ Christmas message (courtesy @itvmlshow.bsky.social )
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In which @owenjones.bsky.social carefully and irresistibly unpicks the sadistic, intellectually dishonest and politically self-defeating policies of Shabana Mahmood. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
A question to the few remaining Labour supporters: is this refugee-bashing what you voted for? | Owen Jones
The government’s callousness has won it respect – from Tommy Robinson and the hard right, says Guardian columnist Owen Jones
www.theguardian.com
November 18, 2025 at 3:57 PM
In which @owenjones.bsky.social carefully and irresistibly unpicks the sadistic, intellectually dishonest and politically self-defeating policies of Shabana Mahmood. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
We want the media and politicians to recognise that there is a large number of women who are supportive of the trans+ community. We call on them to report truthfully about the sources of violence against women and to address the systems that perpetuate harm. notinourname.org.uk/petition/not...
Women in support of the trans+ community - Not in our name
notinourname.org.uk
November 17, 2025 at 9:38 AM
We want the media and politicians to recognise that there is a large number of women who are supportive of the trans+ community. We call on them to report truthfully about the sources of violence against women and to address the systems that perpetuate harm. notinourname.org.uk/petition/not...
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The reaction to the Panorama edit has been nothing short of hysterical. Yes the BBC has some impartiality problems. But its biggest isn't the one you think.
New piece from me.
open.substack.com/pub/goodalla...
New piece from me.
open.substack.com/pub/goodalla...
The truth about impartiality at the BBC
And the hysteria of the current "crisis"
open.substack.com
November 10, 2025 at 7:22 PM
The reaction to the Panorama edit has been nothing short of hysterical. Yes the BBC has some impartiality problems. But its biggest isn't the one you think.
New piece from me.
open.substack.com/pub/goodalla...
New piece from me.
open.substack.com/pub/goodalla...
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A magnificent piece of work. Comprehesive, revelatory & shocking. Journalism this good is always rare & precious but never moreso than at times like this. Latter day Lord Haw Haws being plumped, preened & delivered to your doorstep in plain sight by a Nazi-saluting goon
news.sky.com/story/the-x-...
news.sky.com/story/the-x-...
Elon Musk is boosting the British right - and this shows how
Elon Musk is boosting the British right - and this shows how
news.sky.com
November 6, 2025 at 9:16 AM
A magnificent piece of work. Comprehesive, revelatory & shocking. Journalism this good is always rare & precious but never moreso than at times like this. Latter day Lord Haw Haws being plumped, preened & delivered to your doorstep in plain sight by a Nazi-saluting goon
news.sky.com/story/the-x-...
news.sky.com/story/the-x-...
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Zack Polanski, the leader of the Green Party, recently invited me to discuss economics. There was a lot to talk about. youtu.be/a27AfFTOW3o?...
Are We Looking At The Economy All Wrong? | Richard Murphy | Zack Polanski
YouTube video by Bold Politics with Zack Polanski
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October 23, 2025 at 6:11 AM
Zack Polanski, the leader of the Green Party, recently invited me to discuss economics. There was a lot to talk about. youtu.be/a27AfFTOW3o?...
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The UK can’t run out of pounds any more than it can run out of inches or centimetres. In this response to Gary Stevenson, I explain why money is a public good, created by the state, and why it’s wrong to claim the government is broke.
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youtu.be/2aaKGm9zZlU?...
Why the UK can’t go broke – and why Gary Stevenson shouldn't imply it could
YouTube video by Richard J Murphy
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August 8, 2025 at 6:06 AM
The UK can’t run out of pounds any more than it can run out of inches or centimetres. In this response to Gary Stevenson, I explain why money is a public good, created by the state, and why it’s wrong to claim the government is broke.
youtu.be/2aaKGm9zZlU?...
youtu.be/2aaKGm9zZlU?...
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How private pensions are failing us all – and what to fix youtu.be/DXkznVh3jBA?... Most people don’t understand how pensions really work.In this video I explain why pensions aren’t really about savings at all, but are a contract between generations
How private pensions are failing us all – and what to fix
YouTube video by Richard J Murphy
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July 9, 2025 at 6:10 AM
How private pensions are failing us all – and what to fix youtu.be/DXkznVh3jBA?... Most people don’t understand how pensions really work.In this video I explain why pensions aren’t really about savings at all, but are a contract between generations
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Labour is planning to abandon essential company accounting reforms that the Tories put into law. What is it about Labour? Why are they so keen on assisting fraudsters, tax cheats and the straightforwardly dubious business? www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/07...
Labour: the best friend business opacity has got
As the FT has reported this morning:
Ministers are set to shelve reforms to Companies House that would have required businesses to file their accounts in a more onerous way as part of the government’s...
www.taxresearch.org.uk
July 3, 2025 at 6:40 AM
Labour is planning to abandon essential company accounting reforms that the Tories put into law. What is it about Labour? Why are they so keen on assisting fraudsters, tax cheats and the straightforwardly dubious business? www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/07...
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It's been a good week for us at Good Law Project. 🧵
May 23, 2025 at 5:42 AM
It's been a good week for us at Good Law Project. 🧵
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An excellent letter from Rose to her MP.
May 13, 2025 at 3:25 PM
An excellent letter from Rose to her MP.
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An apt poem for today
‘outwith’: preposition: outside; beyond. A term unique to Scotland.
Revising my visa essay,
applying for three more years
here, I read my own scribbled words:
Comparable opportunities for critical study
do not exist outwith Scotland…
—Katie Ailes, “Outwith”
Glasgow Women Poets, Four-em Press 2016
Revising my visa essay,
applying for three more years
here, I read my own scribbled words:
Comparable opportunities for critical study
do not exist outwith Scotland…
—Katie Ailes, “Outwith”
Glasgow Women Poets, Four-em Press 2016
May 12, 2025 at 1:34 PM
An apt poem for today
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I am going to find it hard to forgive a man as deeply racist as Keir Starmer.
www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/05...
www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/05...
How dare Keir Starmer tell my family that we have caused incalculable damage to the UK?
These are Guardian headlines, published late this morning:
I find these words exceptionally difficult to note when said by someone who claims to have the moral authority that comes from being the p...
www.taxresearch.org.uk
May 12, 2025 at 2:39 PM
I am going to find it hard to forgive a man as deeply racist as Keir Starmer.
www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/05...
www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/05...
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It's been revealed that the Office for National Statistics, which prepares the UK's inflation data, has been using the wrong prices to estimate it. They have used list prices, not what most people pay. The result? Serious overstatement of inflation. www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/04...
The UK’s inflation data has been seriously overstated
FT Alphaville has an article this morning that has the headline:
The UK’s inflation figures were wrong and now we just have to live with that
I won't quote it at length, although it is good investig...
www.taxresearch.org.uk
April 30, 2025 at 6:49 AM
It's been revealed that the Office for National Statistics, which prepares the UK's inflation data, has been using the wrong prices to estimate it. They have used list prices, not what most people pay. The result? Serious overstatement of inflation. www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/04...
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Also amazing: how *personally* appalled lawyers are by what the Supreme Court Justices have done. Some very strong language being used by really rather orthodox lawyers. It's not just that the judgment is unfathomably poor but that people find it hard to avoid concluding it's in bad faith.
April 25, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Also amazing: how *personally* appalled lawyers are by what the Supreme Court Justices have done. Some very strong language being used by really rather orthodox lawyers. It's not just that the judgment is unfathomably poor but that people find it hard to avoid concluding it's in bad faith.
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My article in this week's Common Weal Magazine
A new German study into Universal Basic Income found many of the same positive impacts as every other #UBI pilot to date.
Imagine this had been a study into the impact of removing someone's UBI instead.
www.commonweal.scot/articles/mag...
A new German study into Universal Basic Income found many of the same positive impacts as every other #UBI pilot to date.
Imagine this had been a study into the impact of removing someone's UBI instead.
www.commonweal.scot/articles/mag...
Work To Live — Common Weal
Rather than ask how a UBI would improve life, we could ask what it would look like if someone tried to study the impact of taking a UBI away from us.
www.commonweal.scot
April 18, 2025 at 10:09 AM
My article in this week's Common Weal Magazine
A new German study into Universal Basic Income found many of the same positive impacts as every other #UBI pilot to date.
Imagine this had been a study into the impact of removing someone's UBI instead.
www.commonweal.scot/articles/mag...
A new German study into Universal Basic Income found many of the same positive impacts as every other #UBI pilot to date.
Imagine this had been a study into the impact of removing someone's UBI instead.
www.commonweal.scot/articles/mag...
Try Starling. All on line. We have used it for a few years with no pain !!!!
Does anyone have a retail bank they don't hate? Have been, slightly shamefacedly, with Barclays for thirty five years. Every touch point with them is astonishingly painful, of course. But I have at last had enough and I'm moving. But to who?
April 10, 2025 at 4:33 PM
Try Starling. All on line. We have used it for a few years with no pain !!!!
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We can reveal that the director of Luxe Lifestyle – a firm that bagged a £25.7m PPE contract during Covid, has been arrested.
This is what happened.
This is what happened.
April 9, 2025 at 8:19 AM
We can reveal that the director of Luxe Lifestyle – a firm that bagged a £25.7m PPE contract during Covid, has been arrested.
This is what happened.
This is what happened.
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Time and again, we hear people saying that government debt must be repaid. They are fundamentally wrong. Repaying that debt would create economic nightmares, and is not necessary.
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Repaying the government’s debt would create economic nightmares –and a failed economy.
YouTube video by Richard J Murphy
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April 6, 2025 at 6:10 AM
Time and again, we hear people saying that government debt must be repaid. They are fundamentally wrong. Repaying that debt would create economic nightmares, and is not necessary.
youtu.be/Z9XdiPR169Y?...
youtu.be/Z9XdiPR169Y?...
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The UK benefits system is broken. One third of benefits are not paid and by far the biggest recipients of state aid are the wealthiest people in the country www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/03...
The UK benefits system is broken. One third of benefits are not paid and by far the biggest recipients of state aid are the wealthiest people in the country
As the FT notes this morning:
Sir Keir Starmer has vowed to slash spending on Britain’s “broken” and “indefensible” health-related welfare system, which is costing the government £65bn a year and is o...
www.taxresearch.org.uk
March 16, 2025 at 8:07 AM
The UK benefits system is broken. One third of benefits are not paid and by far the biggest recipients of state aid are the wealthiest people in the country www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/03...