Labour Party? Pull the other one…. taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2024/05/0… It's Workers Day, and so news has leaked that Labour is planning to backtrack on its plans to reinforce worker's rights. Labour's aim is to appease the business community. This really is now a Labour Party In Name Only…

Inflation always goes away youtu.be/WGv8BCrFWbM?si… If the Bank of England was to be believed the only reason inflation has gone away is because they have taken action to control it. But data since 1200 (that's 800+ years ago) shows that after a bout of inflation, prices always…

The US is tottering on the brink of becoming a fascist state taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2024/05/0… Trump has been fined for being in contempt of court, but that is his plan. He wants to bring US courts under his direct control, ending any veneer of democracy. Is the world ready for a fascist…

What if Labour win? taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2024/05/0… Labour’s only plan is to win the election. But, if it does so with a big majority, as expected, that is exactly when its problems will begin, and when left-of-centre ideas will be needed to get it out of the mess it might be in.

Tax does not pay for government spending youtu.be/xnYhGD7xNig?si… via YouTube

Why monopolies are harmful youtu.be/w9BDH-qS6NA?si… via YouTube Monopolies exist when one or a very few companies or organizations control a market and can exploit consumers as a result. The modern economy is riddled with monopolies, many of which are very powerful. Until…

Pensions are 'unsustainable', the NHS is 'unsustainable' and now disability benefits are 'unsustainable', or so we are told. What's really unsustainable is this Tory government.

Why monopolies are harmful youtu.be/w9BDH-qS6NA?si… via YouTube Monopolies exist when one or a very few companies or organizations control a market and can exploit consumers as a result. The modern economy is riddled with monopolies, many of which are very powerful. Until…

The mess that the SNP is in might be an opportunity for the independence movement to get its act together, but it might take time for that to become apparent taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2024/04/3… The Scottish independence cause was always going to be a long game. The SNP’s problems, as it…

Tax does not pay for government spending youtu.be/xnYhGD7xNig?si… via YouTube

Nationalising Thames Water will not in any way threaten the stability of UK financial markets taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2024/04/2… Treasury sourced rumours that financial markets that nationalising Thames Water might cause massive upset in UK financial markets are deliberate misinformation…

It really is time that politicians took note of modern monetary theory taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2024/04/2… Modern monetary theory is the only credible alternative economic theory challenging the neoliberal consensus right now. When that neoliberal consensus has so obviously failed, why…

Tax does not pay for government spending youtu.be/xnYhGD7xNig?si… Probably the biggest challenge to understanding how the economics of governments really works comes from the need to understand that governments of the sort we have in the UK are not funded by taxes. They are…

The Premier League is an oligopolist erecting effective barriers to market entry. What is anyone going to do about it? taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2024/04/2… The last thing that the top tier of English football wants is fair competition - as this season's Premier League table very clearly…

Large company accounts are works of fiction youtu.be/yHhl1jX5OXI?si… via YouTube All rules are followed - of course - but these accounts report transactions that no one company has actually undertaken, and we need better and more than that.

The biggest threat to the UK’s borders comes from climate change taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2024/04/2…
It would really help if we could have politicians who could think beyond their need for instant gratification right now

Dan Poulter MP’s defection to Labour looks like self preservation, cynical manoeuvring and keeping some doors just a little bit open taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2024/04/2…

Large company accounts are works of fiction youtu.be/yHhl1jX5OXI?si… via YouTube The accounts of large companies presented by them to their members induce numbers that no single company has ever produced. Instead, the numbers are made up by accountants combining all the accounts…

I am listening to Rishi Sunak’s on Sky News claiming that reforming what he calls welfare so that he can reduce or even remove the money that claimants need to survive is actually in their best interests. Callousness on this scale justifies public opinion of him.