Was Rishi Sunak really so stupid? taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2023/11/0… It seems very likely that days before he was forced into using QE in March 2020 that Rishi Sunak had no idea that government's could create money to address financial crises, and that they had done so for more than a…

Without the combination of skills and conviction that leadership requires Downing Street failed us in 2020 taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2023/11/0… People died because ministers could not manage in 2020. I hope they will be held accountable.

The FT has called for a ceasefire in Israel and Gaza. Might some leaders listen? taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2023/11/0… This country’s so-called political leaders would have us believe that it is only those with ‘headless hearts’ who believe that there should a ceasefire in Gaza and Israel. The…

“ The director of the New York office of the UN high commissioner for human rights has left his post, protesting that the UN is “failing” in its duty to prevent what he categorizes as genocide of Palestinian civilians in Gaza under Israeli bombardment and citing the US, UK and…

Being an effective prime minister without a moral compass is nigh on impossible. It’s an unfortunate fact that it’s many a year since the UK had such a leader, and right now we haven’t even got the prospect of one.

For decades the Government has refused to integrate the State pension system with the tax system. For years TaxAid and Tax Help for Older People have had to help many of those suffering significant stress as a result but there is more help needed. It’s long past time for change Jeremy Hunt

“ Israel’s collective punishment of the 2.3mn people trapped in Gaza — almost half of them children — must stop.” So says the FT tonight, putting them way to the left of Keir Starmer.
ft.com/content/4668c6… via @ft

🚨 This is one of the most damning of the messages to be revealed so far in the #CovidInquiry .

Boris Johnson texts to say median age of those dying is 82 - “above life expectancy. So get Covid and live longer”.

He therefore rules out a second nationwide lockdown.

What if the oil price goes to $150 a barrel? taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2023/10/3… If it does we need to totally rethink how we tackle inflation.

Question of the day: has Starmer had his moment of glory? taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2023/10/3… Has Starmer blown it?

If politicians are unable to form views in the heat of the moment on the application of international law - when that is necessarily what their job demands of them because they are the people it is meant to apply to and who are required to comply with it - then they should not be…

NEW: Alister Jack has failed to give a statement to the UK Covid Inquiry.

Official documents raised 'particular concern' after Jack missed both the August 18 deadline and the September 1 extension

It never occurred to me that I might live in a democidal state until I was in my 60s. Now I know that I have, and still am.

Brexit prioritised over tackling Covid at start of pandemic, says ex-minister.

Boris Johnson did “everything he could” to avoid focusing on the pandemic.

Johnson “cannot lead” and wanted to “let it rip” when it came crucial choices, says adviser.
theguardian.com/world/2023/oct…

Covid Inquiry:

Boris Johnson said Covid was ‘nature’s way of dealing with old people’

And ‘we should let the old people get it’

Then he went after survivors with austerity, wage/pension/benefit cuts, NHS and social neglect.

We have a democidal state.
opendemocracy.net/en/boris-johns…

NEW: Rishi Sunak when chancellor blocked financial support for people on low wages to help them isolate during Covid, it's been claimed

Patrick Vallance note, Sep 2020: “CX blocking all notion of paying to get people to isolate despite all the evidence that this will be needed”

barryjohnreid2 Early in the pandemic, Sir Paul Nurse offered to turn the Crick Institute - the largest biomedical research facility in Europe - into a huge COVID testing lab. The government… never responded!

I fear Netanyahu is to Starmer what George Bush was to Blair. Blair paid the price and was removed from office.

On 19 March 2020 Rishi Sunak didn’t want to close down the county to save people’s lives because he was frightened bond markets would not fund the UK’s debt. Not only was that callously indifferent, it also showed he neither understood how government funding via money creation…