George Osborne still governs the UK economy
After this election, we need to escape the straitjacket of his 'fiscal rules'.
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The government can’t rob the Bank of England
The Treasury should uphold its side of the quantitative easing deal.
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The petit bourgeois insurrection
Family-owned firms now sit at the heart of America’s fraying democracy.
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The UK doesn’t need to invest in wind farms
For Keir Starmer’s state-owned company Great British Energy to be successful it may need to make unpopular decisions.
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The Tory plan for pensioners is expensive and pointless
Rishi Sunak’s “triple lock plus” is a bribe for voters who don’t need one.
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Will Labour raise taxes?
Taxes will rise whoever forms the next government, and that’s not a bad thing.
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HMRC’s hold music has become our unofficial national anthem
Taxpayers spent 800 years listening to the chirpy, hotel-lobby jazz last year; it is driving our country to distraction.
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Joseph Stiglitz: the UK’s tax system is “inexcusable”
The American economist on how neoliberalism put us on “the road to 21st-century fascism”.
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