A tax on financial transactions has long been a popular idea on the far left, with the latest proposal for a levy on transactions coming from UK’s Labour Party under the leadership of the unreconstructed Marxist Jeremy Corbyn. However the proposal is a spectacularly […]
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Brexit has knocked UK politics for a loop… forever?
The old political division between Left and Right which has long prevailed in the Western world is basically obsolete, and nowhere is this more evident than in Britain in the chaotic age of Brexit, argues Carnegie Europe visiting scholar Peter Kellner. […]
Can Johnson wriggle out of Brexit delay?
After Boris Johnson suffered serial defeats in Parliament this week over, first, his plan to take the UK out of the EU with a “no-deal” Brexit on October 31, and then over his attempt to call a general election, what possible courses of action remain […]
Labour’s proposed share transfer is a stealth tax with £300B price tag
It’s not news that the Labour Party under Jeremy Corbyn, an unreconstructed Trotskyite, is far more radically left-leaning than under any of his predecessors — but what’s not as well understood is the actual financial impact of the sweeping reinvention of the British […]