While speculation about a right-wing pact to ensure that the Tories or Reform can win power is rampant, there’s little mention of any sort of progressive pact to save us from such a fate. The post Left or right – who could unite first? appeared first on Left Foot Forward: Leading the UK's progressive debate.| Left Foot Forward: Leading the UK's progressive debate
The Conservative manifesto is here, and an accompanying costings document is here. It proposes £6bn of tax cuts in 2024/25, rising to £17bn in 2029/30. The tax cut figures appear realistic; the question is whether they are affordable. But the bigger question is why the manifesto is almost completely silent on tax reform, when so […]| Tax Policy Associates Ltd
It is positive that another protest has been called against Leicester’s Labour-led City Council because of their ongoing plans to defund our libraries and community centres. This demonstration is b…| Thoughts of a Leicester Socialist
Pero el batacazo conservador tiene que ver, más que con el Brexit, con el desencanto del Brexit.| Libertad Digital
Does anyone else see a parallel between the Murdoch e-mail timeline; and some of the recent new information? For example, the meetings with Cameron regarding the Sun coming out for him seem to have happened not long before the new policy of “eliminating in a consistent manner across NI…emails that could be unhelpful”. More tellingly, […]| Alternate Seat of TYR
Ralph Musgrave‘s economics blog makes a case for a program of time-limited payments to companies who hire the unemployed, although I’m not sure if Musgrave is thinking of it as a permanent feature of the welfare state rather than an emergency response to depression. I might quibble with a couple of aspects – for example, […]| Alternate Seat of TYR
Another thought, in the light of my last post and this one, is that the Murdoch wars have been effective because they get to the Tories’ System One, kinaesthetic, internalised skills, just in…| Alternate Seat of TYR
With a General Election looming, Peter Ramsay spoke last week at the London School of Economics about why the survival of the British nation is in doubt and why the politics of culture war are an e…| The Northern Star
Peter Ramsay on how Sunak’s deal with the DUP neutralises Brexit and confirms what we have previously argued on The Northern Star: that Britain’s national sovereignty needs Ireland’s reunification.…| The Northern Star
