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Britain’s housing crisis won’t be fixed without a new tax landscape

We need policies that stop treating property as a store of wealth and that allow people to move home cheaply John Healey’s critics on the right and left accused him of dodging the big questions in his first budget. The chancellor failed to announce reforms that might tackle some of Britain’s chronic problems, they say. Healey’s scatter-gun budget, as the Resolution Foundation called it, was more about politics than economics, and unapologetically so. Continue reading...

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The real problem with Britain’s Political Traitors show is that no one is very faithful to anything for long | Robert Hutton

For Westminster’s special budget edition of the series, politicians have played to their strengths. Bombast, duplicity, distrust: it’s all second nature You join us on a steam train in Scotland as we head to the next episode of the BBC’s hit show Political Traitors. It’s like the celebrity edition, except that everyone is less comely – politics being the practice of show business for ugly people. For this week’s task, the players have to construct a “budget” of tiny crowd-pleasing measures, carefully balanced by invisible tax rises. What makes the show so compelling is that the players don’t k

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When you’re traduced, abused and gaslighted – believe me, Black History Month matters | Hugh Muir

There is always debate about the concept’s necessity and efficacy. But with nativists in their pomp, it’s good to focus on who we are and why What forces shaped four generations of Black Britons? | The panel Pity Black History Month UK, assailed on all sides. Those on the right seek to end the celebration on the basis that it amounts to special treatment for a group that doesn’t deserve it. History should be colour-blind: society should not differentiate, they say. We are not racist, we just want fairness. But often, they are – and they really don’t. On the other side of the argument are the p

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