Notices by Richard Murphy (richardjmurphy@mas.to)

Why growth, Rachel Reeves? https://www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2024/07/08/why-growth-rachel-reeves/ If 'growth' is Rachel Reeves' mission, she has, at the very least, to say what it is she plans to grow and with what planned outcome. Right now, there are no answers, but only questions, all of which imply she has little idea what this supposed mission is all about.

Donald Trump poses the biggest global danger of 2024 https://www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2023/11/17/donald-trump-poses-the-biggest-global-danger-of-2024/. I don't always agree with The Economist. Our worldviews are different. But it seems that we agree on the risk of and from a fascist President of the USA.

The present is unsustainable. Oil and banking have made it so. Something is going to have to change. https://www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2023/08/01/the-present-is-unsustainable-oil-and-banking-have-made-it-so-something-is-going-to-have-to-change/. We are reaching a tipping point. Sunak's big oil and high-interest rate policy, tacitly backed by Labour, is unsustainable.

The government had to make a choice as to who would survive Covid. The choice was people or financial services. It made the wrong choice. https://www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2023/07/02/the-government-had-to-make-a-choice-as-to-who-would-survive-covid-the-choice-was-people-or-financial-services-it-made-the-wriong-choice/

Did a Tory Vice-Chair mean to oppose democracy, or did he just make a mistake? https://www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2023/05/08/did-a-tory-vice-chair-mean-to-oppose-democracy-or-did-he-just-make-a-mistake/.

The NHS can be properly funded. Anyone claiming otherwise is just not telling the truth https://www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2023/04/17/the-nhs-can-be-properly-funded-anyone-claiming-otherwise-is-just-not-telling-the-truth/