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Category: Hands Off Our Future!

  • Women: stop buying shoes

    No time to blog about this now, but join the dots between this article – with government ministers hectoring women about not saving enough (leaving aside the fundamental unfairness of a system that favours men who aren’t forced to choose between career and family) and this article – which suggests that all the money is…

  • Radio HOOF

    I launched this website a couple on months ago on The Big Issue – a radio programme on Resonance FM. They’ve just added a couple of excerpts of the programme on their website for your listening pleasure (I’m on all the ones dated 24 May). One thing that occurred to me relistening to these things. …

  • The what and why of land value taxation

    I must learn to curb my enthusiasm about the Conservative Party. Contrary to my post earlier today, it would appear that the Bow Group’s proposals today (which can be found in full here) are not in fact a land value tax at all, merely a property tax and that going by the comments on ConservativeHome,…

  • The difference 100 years makes

    Just under 100 years ago the Conservative Party, from its position of strength in the House of Lords, went to war with a reforming Liberal Government on the issue of land value taxation.  Now it is the latest thing in Tory fiscal reforms. I’ll blog about this later, but all in all this is something…

  • A Taxing Question: Do Lib Dems want the Youth Vote?

    A poll by the Hansard Society to coincide with the local elections in May had the Liberal Democrats winning the Youth Vote: 30% of 100,000 pupils in over 200 schools voted Lib Dem, with Labour and Greens tying on 25% and the Tories on 15%. National policies such as free tuition fees and opposition to…