At this week’s Labour conference, the leadership injects some positivity about the country’s prospects having been criticised for its so far downbeat messaging that is…
At this week’s Labour conference, the leadership injects some positivity about the country’s prospects having been criticised for its so far downbeat messaging that is…
“The UK income tax system taxes those individuals at the very top of the earnings distribution relatively (i.e. relative to lower earners) more heavily than…
Last week, the government lied about there not being enough money to pay the public sector workers, unless there were compensatory cuts. Since the money…
The debt ceiling crisis has again brought into focus the perennial gap between what the government spends and what it accumulates in taxes, and the…
In last week’s budget, the Chancellor invoked orthodox financial thinking to argue that the national debt has to be reduced. Hence his logic for the…
The UK is set to face steep challenges on the road to post-covid economic recovery. Concerns remain around the impacts of the coronavirus pandemic and…
In this issue of our Globalisation Outlook we examine: Has China become trapped in the usual authoritarian cycle of aggression and paranoia from which it…
In this new RADIX paper, Sir Norman Lamb – one of the most respected Parliamentarians of recent years who served as a minister in the…
This is my stand on The Radical Centre: A Ten-Point Guide. It is a seven-point programme for a radical centre 1) Introduce seriously representative democracy to replace…
As an adviser to Tax Justice UK, I was invited to the Fair Tax conference in London last week. No-one really likes paying taxes, but…
So the government now has a Brexit plan having had an awayday at Chequers, and Jeremy Corbyn has made a speech that gives some direction…