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Continue reading →: Why a 0.5% Property Tax Isn’t Just a Different Council TaxWith the recent election of Andy Burnham, I have seen increasing discussion about replacing council tax with a single property tax based on the current value of a home, rather than the band it has been allocated. Much of that discussion is framed around fairness, with comparisons between high-value homes…
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Continue reading →: Brexit and the BoatsDid Brexit Cause the Rise in Small Boat Crossings? A Closer Look at the Evidence I have noticed a trend recently where the upsurge in irregular immigration through particularly small boat crossings is being blamed on Brexit. There is a general theme where all public ills are laid at the…
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Continue reading →: The Overton Window: When Perception Moves Faster Than Politics“The Overton Window is a concept that describes the range of political ideas considered acceptable in public debate at a given time.“ I’ve been seeing the phrase “The Overton Window has moved” quite a lot recently and it’s never sat quite right with me. I always felt that it didn’t…
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Continue reading →: Community Wealth Building:A Good Idea – But one the SNP may fail to deliver The new Community Wealth Building (Scotland) Bill has recently passed through the Scottish Parliament, and it has done so with remarkably little fanfare. Which is a shame, as I think it is, in principle, a genuinely good idea…
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Continue reading →: A Tax-Free Floor: Why £20k Isn’t RadicalStop Taxing Subsistence: Rethinking the Personal Allowance A few weeks ago, there was a flurry of media noise around Reform’s proposal to raise the personal allowance to £20,000. There was very little detail behind it, but the usual suspects were wheeled out, and the same old models were used to…
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This blog grew out of a simple frustration: the gap between real life and the way it’s reported. I’m less interested in headlines than in the framing, assumptions and narratives behind them. I write about the space between noise and nuance, and why the middle is generally where the truth is found.
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