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40 UK orgs & unions urge the PM and Chancellor to tax excess profits of energy, banking and defence sectors - set for bumper paydays from the illegal US-Israeli war on Iran - to help with the cost of living pressures.
Read the open letter at taxjustice.uk/IranWar
The tax system is tilted towards polluters and the super-rich who are fuelling the climate & nature crisis.
They profit. We pay the price.
We can rewrite the rules so everyone has access to:
💡 Great public services
🌱 Clean air
💧 Thriving nature
🌍 A safe climate
These guys are one of the only voices in the UK economics/tax space campaigning for higher taxes on wealth.
They're asking for donations to keep doing this work.
For journalists/editors/producers covering the government's spending review this week, @taxjusticeuk.bsky.social is able to field spokespeople for interviews, and provide rapid, expert commentary. DM me or email press[at]taxjustice[dot]uk. #journorequest #prrequest
Sunday Mail front page: Starmer declares war on benefits Britain
Just incredibly bleak that when a Labour government is finally in power, disabled people still have to wake up to front pages calling them a blight on society.
👋 it’s been a while! Hope you’re keeping well and good
It's definitely quite striking to compare Bluesky and X side by side. I was painfully aware of the ads, algo-pushed content and filler clogging up my feed, with increasingly far-right content seeming to be in front of me. This is much lighter on the brain.
With farm owners protesting today over the prospect of paying a highly discounted inheritence tax, I'm sure you've seen quotes about how they "feed the nation".
But nobody is talking about the migrant workers who actually pick the crops on horticulture farms, so here's a short thread about them.
You think "Big Oil" is influencing international climate negotiations?
Meet Big Meat, Big Diary, and Big Chemicals...
www.desmog.com/2024/11/18/b...
I've written more on reforms to agricultural property tax for @lbc.co.uk www.lbc.co.uk/opinion/view...
I have a lot of sympathy for farmers who do hard work in difficult circumstances.
But public services are crumbling, including in the countryside.
It's right to ask some of the wealthiest landowners to pay a bit more tax.
Me on @TimesRadio
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Made a semi-migration from X. Working as deputy director - comms at @taxjusticeuk.bsky.social .
Do get in touch if you’re working on stories/interviews and I can be useful (background, info, spokes, comment, etc)
Also research industrial conversion and role of labour in just transition.
