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Comment on macroeconomic issues
Tuesday, 7 April 2026
Taxation as Insurance, Welfare and Entitlements
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A rather abstract discussion which leads to a very specific conclusion about the merger of income tax and employee national insurance cont...
Tuesday, 31 March 2026
The damage that right wing populists do
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History, and events today, tell us the damage that fascism can do. Right wing populism is a milder form of fascism. Right wing populism is...
Tuesday, 24 March 2026
Both Reform and Conservatives are now officially Islamophobic
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After 9/11, when George W Bush declared a war on terror, he at first described it as a crusade. European leaders, and especially Tony Bla...
Tuesday, 17 March 2026
Public Attitudes to taxes and spending, and VAT zero rating
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Does the recent and unprecedented increase in the minority wanting a smaller state reflect the non-indexation of tax thresholds? If it doe...
Tuesday, 10 March 2026
Idiot Wind
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What Trump’s war against Iran tells us about the US government, the UK political right and the mainstream media in both countries What...
Sunday, 1 March 2026
Why Gorton and Denton is still a good result for Reform
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It was a great result for the Greens, and a terrible result for Labour. Although Reform didn’t win the Gorton and Denton by-election, by c...
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