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Jun 26, 2018

Taxes, growth and right-wing ideology

No one would ever accuse Jacob Rees-Mogg of being up to date. But that applies as much to the Tory backbencher’s politics as his...

Jun 26, 2017

The truth about your housing wealth? You didn’t earn it

Way back in the mists of time when “Red Ed” Miliband proposed a tax on homes worth more than £2m, no less than Michael Caine considered...

Feb 22, 2017

If we want an adequate health service we will need to pay more tax

Imagine a large barrel that we pull apart, reconstruct and expand (at considerable expense) every year. Imagine we need to store a...

Feb 6, 2017

Republicans are doing the right thing on tax reform, albeit accidently

“The greatest treason”, suggested TS Eliot in Murder in the Cathedral, is to “do the right deed for the wrong reason”. That feels like a...