The Tory austerity drive – bound up as it is in the barefaced lie that Britain was brought low in 2008 by benefit scroungers and not reckless bankers – was never about fixing the economy, it is about shrinking the state. As such, it was hardly surprising to see Cameron’s Etonian class warriors lining up […]
Labour has betrayed its supporters by voting for the welfare cap Read More »
Thousands lined the streets to pay tribute to the late, great Bob Crow on Monday. With even his opponents gushing praise for a trade union leader who fought hard for his members, was resolute in his principles and above all brilliant at his job, it’s hard to imagine that scarcely more than a month ago
Recapturing the spirit of ’45 for the 99% Read More »
In a bid to shore up his right flank from the UKIP onslaught, David Cameron is once again suggesting the Tories could pledge to raise the inheritance tax threshold t the next election. It’ll be a popular measure for owners of the 3% of estates which actually pay the tax, but does it actually matter
Appearance on LBC Radio: Nick Ferrari interviews me on inheritance tax Read More »
As David Cameron was in Brussels for vital talks on tackling tax havens, I was invited back on RT News to give my two tax compliant cents.
Appearance on RT News: Tackling tax havens Read More »
Margaret Thatcher died today. They say you should not speak ill of the dead, so I shan’t be writing any long obituaries. Thatcher was my ideological opposite, after all. Born in the year of the miner’s strike, I was too young to remember much of her time in power, but looking back on her record,
Margaret Thatcher’s death is nothing to celebrate, her legacy lives on Read More »
In 1919, when soldiers under the command of Brigadier-General Reginald E.H. Dyer massacred between 379 and 1000 Sikhs, Muslims and Hindus assembled in Amritsar’s Jallianwala Bagh garden, the British Empire was the greatest superpower the Earth had ever seen and India was its prize acquisition, a jewel shining bright under a sun that never set.
This article was originally written for Left Foot Forward When David Cameron blindsided Ed Miliband with an in-out referendum on the EU last month, he hoped to deal a devastating blow to the opposition by painting the Conservatives as the party of democracy with its finger on the pulse of public opinion against an out
Labour’s poll lead over Tories proves austerity is more unpopular than the EU Read More »
I have a letter in today’s Evening Standard on the role of tax avoidance in HMV’s downfall.
Letter in the Evening Standard: HMV and LVCR Read More »
