mainly macro

  Most people would agree that taxes, taken as a whole, should be progressive. When you add up all the taxes that an individual pays, the pe...

        From 2025 V-DEM report In global terms autocracies are on the rise, and democracies are declining. According to the V-Dem Institute ...

  The Blair/Brown government waited until they had won a second general election before raising taxes ‘on working people’ to accompany a sig...

  Press coverage of the IMF’s annual report on the UK economy in both the FT and Guardian chose to headline their comments about ‘refinin...

  This post is not about whether the UK Conservative party will be replaced by Farage’s Reform as the main opposition to Labour. As long as ...

  I often see the claim that Reeves is just doing a version of George Osborne’s austerity, or that Reeves is following Osborne in being obse...

  I’m on holiday, and wasn’t going to write a blog post this week. But after a splendid day out on the Northumbrian coast I made the mistake...