Economic justice campaigner. Emeritus professor of Accounting Practice, Sheffield University. Former chartered accountant. Political economist. Co-founder, the Green New Deal. Also blogging at www.taxresearch.org.uk .
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Last Notes npub1j79mcavmw2pll7ky6yfj3gluyskqvkrfn9760970ad0psruaxpcqqmrc5v Richard Murphy Now is the time for Burnham to plan for Thames Water’s demise. Will Burnham rise to the challenge? https://www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2026/10/20/now-is-the-time-for-burnham-to-plan-for-the-thames-waters-demise/ npub1j79mcavmw2pll7ky6yfj3gluyskqvkrfn9760970ad0psruaxpcqqmrc5v Richard Murphy We can build a new society out of the wreckage of neoliberalism, and we're going to have to. https://www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2026/10/20/we-can-build-a-new-society-out-of-the-wreckage-of-neoliberalism/ npub1j79mcavmw2pll7ky6yfj3gluyskqvkrfn9760970ad0psruaxpcqqmrc5v Richard Murphy Donald Trump's deal with Russia to secure diesel shows that the moment of desperation in the international economy is approaching very fast. We're edging toward meltdown, and our politicians are still ignoring that fact. https://www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2026/10/10/the-moment-of-desperation-is-approaching-very-fast/ npub1j79mcavmw2pll7ky6yfj3gluyskqvkrfn9760970ad0psruaxpcqqmrc5v Richard Murphy The great challenge this country will face soon is deciding who runs it and for whom. Is it run by central banks for financial markets, or by elected governments for people? That is the question. Resolving it may be ugly, but it will have to happen. npub1j79mcavmw2pll7ky6yfj3gluyskqvkrfn9760970ad0psruaxpcqqmrc5v Richard Murphy Is France jettisoning neoliberalism? https://www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2026/10/07/is-france-jettisoning-neoliberalism/ npub1j79mcavmw2pll7ky6yfj3gluyskqvkrfn9760970ad0psruaxpcqqmrc5v Richard Murphy Why are the Tories obsessed with inheritance tax? https://www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2026/10/06/why-are-the-tories-obsessed-with-inheritance-tax/ npub1j79mcavmw2pll7ky6yfj3gluyskqvkrfn9760970ad0psruaxpcqqmrc5v Richard Murphy Has Andy Burnham no idea what to do? https://www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2026/09/30/has-andy-burnham-no-idea-what-to-do/ Why is Andy Burnham only offering action after the next election, which he knows he will lose? Is it because he does not actually know what to do? npub1j79mcavmw2pll7ky6yfj3gluyskqvkrfn9760970ad0psruaxpcqqmrc5v Richard Murphy It is time for people of courage to walk away from Labour https://www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2026/09/29/it-is-time-for-people-of-courage-to-walk-away-from-labour/ They have had their chance. They have blown it. We need a real alternative in this country now. They will never be it again. npub1j79mcavmw2pll7ky6yfj3gluyskqvkrfn9760970ad0psruaxpcqqmrc5v Richard Murphy Tax banks more, now! https://www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2026/09/23/tax-banks-now/ The City says higher taxes will drive banks away. That might be exactly what Britain needs. npub1j79mcavmw2pll7ky6yfj3gluyskqvkrfn9760970ad0psruaxpcqqmrc5v Richard Murphy The economy is going to get really bad. We need a plan. And John Healey is Chancellor. https://www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2026/09/19/the-economy-is-going-to-get-really-bad-we-need-a-plan-and-john-healey-is-chancellor/ npub1j79mcavmw2pll7ky6yfj3gluyskqvkrfn9760970ad0psruaxpcqqmrc5v Richard Murphy It’s not too late to beat Reform – but it will be if Labour does not act now https://www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2026/09/13/95650/ npub1j79mcavmw2pll7ky6yfj3gluyskqvkrfn9760970ad0psruaxpcqqmrc5v Richard Murphy Why has Anthropic boss Dario Amodei called for a halt in AI development? I suspect he's hit his human limits. He is in a blind funk, and he may not be alone. npub1j79mcavmw2pll7ky6yfj3gluyskqvkrfn9760970ad0psruaxpcqqmrc5v Richard Murphy The central banks begin their war on the innocent victims of inflation https://www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2026/09/11/the-central-banks-begin-their-war-on-the-innocent-victims-of-inflation/ npub1j79mcavmw2pll7ky6yfj3gluyskqvkrfn9760970ad0psruaxpcqqmrc5v Richard Murphy If we want to beat fascism, the answer is easy: scrap neoliberalism https://www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2026/09/08/if-we-want-to-beat-fascism-the-answer-is-easy-scrap-neoliberalism/ npub1j79mcavmw2pll7ky6yfj3gluyskqvkrfn9760970ad0psruaxpcqqmrc5v Richard Murphy Do you and our economy have what is needed to survive the next crash? npub1j79mcavmw2pll7ky6yfj3gluyskqvkrfn9760970ad0psruaxpcqqmrc5v Richard Murphy The FT view: make the vulnerable pay for failing neoliberalism https://www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2026/09/02/the-ft-view-make-the-vulnerable-pay-for-failing-neoliberalism/ Rarely is the message spelt out so clearly as the FT has today, that the rich think the world should be run in their interests, and everyone else should pay the price. npub1j79mcavmw2pll7ky6yfj3gluyskqvkrfn9760970ad0psruaxpcqqmrc5v Richard Murphy Words might have come very easily to Burnham yesterday. Meaningful ones do not. The impression that he is a man missing many of the ideas required to create, let alone deliver, a strategy was reinforced as a result. npub1j79mcavmw2pll7ky6yfj3gluyskqvkrfn9760970ad0psruaxpcqqmrc5v Richard Murphy Farewell Sir Keir Starmer MP https://www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2026/09/01/farewell-sir-keir-starmer-mp/ Not just the worst Labour Prime Minister (yet), but also its worst leader, making Ramsay MacDonald look like a lifelong party loyalist. npub1j79mcavmw2pll7ky6yfj3gluyskqvkrfn9760970ad0psruaxpcqqmrc5v Richard Murphy Will the smug certainty of the FT be swept away? https://www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2026/09/01/will-the-smug-certainty-of-the-ft-be-swept-away/ npub1j79mcavmw2pll7ky6yfj3gluyskqvkrfn9760970ad0psruaxpcqqmrc5v Richard Murphy The choice is clear: do we want more austerity or increased well-being? https://www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2026/08/25/the-choice-is-clear-do-we-want-more-austerity-or-an-increase-in-well-being/ The UK economy is failing, but that is entirely by choice. We could flourish if only we broke our obsession with finance and put people first. npub1j79mcavmw2pll7ky6yfj3gluyskqvkrfn9760970ad0psruaxpcqqmrc5v Richard Murphy Is the political obsession with growth misplaced? npub1j79mcavmw2pll7ky6yfj3gluyskqvkrfn9760970ad0psruaxpcqqmrc5v Richard Murphy My sense that we are living through the economic equivalent of the summer of 1939 at this moment, waiting for the storm to break, grows by the day. https://www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2026/08/19/this-is-nuts/ npub1j79mcavmw2pll7ky6yfj3gluyskqvkrfn9760970ad0psruaxpcqqmrc5v Richard Murphy Reform wants to remove benefits from 3 million people and force them into work. But there are no jobs. There are already 2.5 people for every vacancy, and they are saying nothing about how they will create work for all these people. Nothing they say adds up. https://www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2026/08/17/reform-wants-people-off-benefits-but-where-are-the-jobs/ npub1j79mcavmw2pll7ky6yfj3gluyskqvkrfn9760970ad0psruaxpcqqmrc5v Richard Murphy After posting yesterday's infographic on how banks create money by lending, people asked how this suggestion is altered by the requirement to pay interest on this new money. This is my explanation. npub1j79mcavmw2pll7ky6yfj3gluyskqvkrfn9760970ad0psruaxpcqqmrc5v Richard Murphy Tax does not do what most people think. It does not fund the government. What it does do might be even more important. npub1j79mcavmw2pll7ky6yfj3gluyskqvkrfn9760970ad0psruaxpcqqmrc5v Richard Murphy Why pick on Chris Packham? https://www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2026/08/12/why-pick-on-chris-packham/ The Times has mounted an attack on Chris Packham, saying he is not autistic. Why? What do they hope to gain? And is this quite sinister? npub1j79mcavmw2pll7ky6yfj3gluyskqvkrfn9760970ad0psruaxpcqqmrc5v Richard Murphy Keynes transformed economics, making clear how markets fail and that governments have to intervene to deliver wellbeing. We need another Keynes now. npub1j79mcavmw2pll7ky6yfj3gluyskqvkrfn9760970ad0psruaxpcqqmrc5v Richard Murphy When will politics move beyond pandering to a thug in Washington? https://www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2026/08/10/when-will-politics-move-beyond-pandering-to-a-thug-in-washington/ npub1j79mcavmw2pll7ky6yfj3gluyskqvkrfn9760970ad0psruaxpcqqmrc5v Richard Murphy This one is important because MMT is. npub1j79mcavmw2pll7ky6yfj3gluyskqvkrfn9760970ad0psruaxpcqqmrc5v Richard Murphy There is no news from a government that’s in office but on holiday during a crisis https://www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2026/08/03/there-is-no-news-from-a-government-thats-in-office-but-which-has-gone-on-holiday/ Where is Burnham's government as the climate crisis hits home? npub1j79mcavmw2pll7ky6yfj3gluyskqvkrfn9760970ad0psruaxpcqqmrc5v Richard Murphy https://media.mas.to/media_attachments/files/117/001/795/781/631/376/original/79881eaee06dfc98.png npub1j79mcavmw2pll7ky6yfj3gluyskqvkrfn9760970ad0psruaxpcqqmrc5v Richard Murphy https://media.mas.to/media_attachments/files/116/996/200/349/764/469/original/b884416b9e8d10da.png npub1j79mcavmw2pll7ky6yfj3gluyskqvkrfn9760970ad0psruaxpcqqmrc5v Richard Murphy Money is not the scarce resource for Burnham. Ideas are. https://www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2026/07/22/money-is-not-the-scarce-resource-for-burnham-ideas-are/ Burnham is "paying" for £2 bus fares by making international climate funding into loans, which have always turned out badly. Rehashing failed ideas does not deliver radical government. It repeats failure. npub1j79mcavmw2pll7ky6yfj3gluyskqvkrfn9760970ad0psruaxpcqqmrc5v Richard Murphy Cutting VAT on electricity does not address our real energy crisis https://www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2026/07/21/cutting-vat-on-electricity-does-not-address-our-real-energy-crisis/ The National Grid spends more than £1 billion a year - the cost of this cut - on wasted energy because the Grid is so lacking in investment. That's the real crisis. npub1j79mcavmw2pll7ky6yfj3gluyskqvkrfn9760970ad0psruaxpcqqmrc5v Richard Murphy John Healey: a man to perpetuate the status quo https://www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2026/07/20/john-healey-a-man-to-perpetuate-the-status-quo/ Our new Chancellor is not a man to upset the economic status quo. npub1j79mcavmw2pll7ky6yfj3gluyskqvkrfn9760970ad0psruaxpcqqmrc5v Richard Murphy My View On … Government Bonds https://www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2026/07/19/my-view-on-government-bonds/ They're not what you think, and that matters. npub1j79mcavmw2pll7ky6yfj3gluyskqvkrfn9760970ad0psruaxpcqqmrc5v Richard Murphy Will markets crash? https://www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2026/07/18/will-markets-crash/ Yes, of course they will. All the data suggests that. And the biggest problem of all is that our politicians are ignoring the risk. npub1j79mcavmw2pll7ky6yfj3gluyskqvkrfn9760970ad0psruaxpcqqmrc5v Richard Murphy How to Get Filthy Rich: a review https://www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2026/07/10/how-to-get-filthy-rich-a-review/ Gary Stevenson's programme failed to deliver, and that matters. We need to tax wealth more, even if we don't need a wealth tax. npub1j79mcavmw2pll7ky6yfj3gluyskqvkrfn9760970ad0psruaxpcqqmrc5v Richard Murphy Government v bank money https://www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2026/07/10/government-v-bank-money/ We are in an economic mess by choice: banker’s choice, backed by a captured economics profession. npub1j79mcavmw2pll7ky6yfj3gluyskqvkrfn9760970ad0psruaxpcqqmrc5v Richard Murphy My view on … modern monetary theory https://www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2026/07/09/my-view-on-modern-monetary-theory/ A summary of the subject, and my interpretation of the issues. npub1j79mcavmw2pll7ky6yfj3gluyskqvkrfn9760970ad0psruaxpcqqmrc5v Richard Murphy When a president says the quiet part out loud https://www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2026/07/05/when-a-president-says-the-quiet-part-out-loud/ Trump wants fascism in the USA, by destroying its democracy. Worry. npub1j79mcavmw2pll7ky6yfj3gluyskqvkrfn9760970ad0psruaxpcqqmrc5v Richard Murphy What is economics? A logical explanation https://www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2026/06/29/what-is-economics-a-logical-explanation/ Rethinking just about everything about economics in one very logically structured blog post. npub1j79mcavmw2pll7ky6yfj3gluyskqvkrfn9760970ad0psruaxpcqqmrc5v Richard Murphy Fifty-two questions for Andy Burnham https://www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2026/06/21/fifty-two-questions-for-andy-burnham/ Questions to which we need answers if Burnham is to be PM npub1j79mcavmw2pll7ky6yfj3gluyskqvkrfn9760970ad0psruaxpcqqmrc5v Richard Murphy Makerfield – the lessons to learn, whatever the result https://www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2026/06/18/makerfield-the-lessons-to-learn-whatever-the-result/ npub1j79mcavmw2pll7ky6yfj3gluyskqvkrfn9760970ad0psruaxpcqqmrc5v Richard Murphy We need a Courageous State to fight neoliberalism https://www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2026/06/15/we-need-a-courageous-state-to-fight-neoliberalism/ Farage is now openly promoting a racist agenda within a neoliberal framework, and neoliberals can't beat that. We need a politics of care npub1j79mcavmw2pll7ky6yfj3gluyskqvkrfn9760970ad0psruaxpcqqmrc5v Richard Murphy Why do older people support the far-right? https://www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2026/06/14/why-do-older-people-support-the-far-right/ npub1j79mcavmw2pll7ky6yfj3gluyskqvkrfn9760970ad0psruaxpcqqmrc5v Richard Murphy Ministers are actively turning what might need only be a crisis into a disaster https://www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2026/06/07/ministers-are-actively-turning-what-might-need-only-be-a-crisis-into-a-disaster/ We have a food crisis coming our way - and ministers are completely ignoring it. npub1j79mcavmw2pll7ky6yfj3gluyskqvkrfn9760970ad0psruaxpcqqmrc5v Richard Murphy Richard Murphy’s Views On…Inflation https://www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2026/06/06/richard-murphys-views-oninflation/ A Saturday long read npub1j79mcavmw2pll7ky6yfj3gluyskqvkrfn9760970ad0psruaxpcqqmrc5v Richard Murphy The impoverishing thinking of central bankers who want interest rate rises https://www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2026/06/05/the-impoverishing-thinking-of-central-bankers-who-want-interest-rate-rises/ The Bank of England is gearing itself up for interest rate rises - to deliberately punish ordinary people for a war they did not create. npub1j79mcavmw2pll7ky6yfj3gluyskqvkrfn9760970ad0psruaxpcqqmrc5v Richard Murphy The City does not believe in funding small business. The government should. https://www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2026/05/25/the-city-does-not-believe-in-funding-small-business-the-government-should/ npub1j79mcavmw2pll7ky6yfj3gluyskqvkrfn9760970ad0psruaxpcqqmrc5v Richard Murphy Economic paralysis https://www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2026/05/23/economic-paralysis/ Households know the UK economy is in a mess. They're cutting their spending to match. The problem is going to be that our politicians will want to do the same - and that's the wrong answer right now. npub1j79mcavmw2pll7ky6yfj3gluyskqvkrfn9760970ad0psruaxpcqqmrc5v Richard Murphy Economic incoherence: Rachel Reeve’s epitaph https://www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2026/05/22/economic-incoherence-rachel-reeves-epitaph/ npub1j79mcavmw2pll7ky6yfj3gluyskqvkrfn9760970ad0psruaxpcqqmrc5v Richard Murphy Trump’s attack on the ICC is really an attack on the rule of law https://www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2026/05/19/trumps-attack-on-the-icc-is-really-an-attack-on-the-rule-of-law/ npub1j79mcavmw2pll7ky6yfj3gluyskqvkrfn9760970ad0psruaxpcqqmrc5v Richard Murphy Reeves’s reckless gamble with financial stability https://www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2026/05/17/reevess-reckless-gamble-with-financial-stability/ Just as we face another financial crisis, Rachel Reeves is seeking to loosen banking regulation, massively increasing the risk to deposits and the state, which will pick up the cost. npub1j79mcavmw2pll7ky6yfj3gluyskqvkrfn9760970ad0psruaxpcqqmrc5v Richard Murphy This could be as bad as 1929, and maybe very much worse https://www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2026/05/16/this-could-be-as-bad-as-1929-and-maybe-very-much-worse/ npub1j79mcavmw2pll7ky6yfj3gluyskqvkrfn9760970ad0psruaxpcqqmrc5v Richard Murphy Business says Britain needs stability. But stability for business has too often meant insecurity for everyone else: weak wages, poor services, high bills and no serious challenge to corporate power. The question is not whether politics is stable. It is who that stability serves. npub1j79mcavmw2pll7ky6yfj3gluyskqvkrfn9760970ad0psruaxpcqqmrc5v Richard Murphy How to manage the cost of government borrowing https://www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2026/05/12/how-to-manage-the-cost-of-government-borrowing/ npub1j79mcavmw2pll7ky6yfj3gluyskqvkrfn9760970ad0psruaxpcqqmrc5v Richard Murphy The world is in denial about what is coming our way https://www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2026/05/05/the-world-is-in-denial-about-what-is-coming-our-way/ npub1j79mcavmw2pll7ky6yfj3gluyskqvkrfn9760970ad0psruaxpcqqmrc5v Richard Murphy Do we have the right to question police violence? https://www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2026/05/03/do-we-have-the-right-to-question-police-violence/ npub1j79mcavmw2pll7ky6yfj3gluyskqvkrfn9760970ad0psruaxpcqqmrc5v Richard Murphy What happens if oil prices hit $200 a barrel soon? https://www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2026/05/03/what-happens-if-oil-prices-hit-200-a-barrel-soon/ npub1j79mcavmw2pll7ky6yfj3gluyskqvkrfn9760970ad0psruaxpcqqmrc5v Richard Murphy Will we ever choose to address climate change? https://www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2026/05/01/will-we-ever-choose-to-address-climate-change/ npub1j79mcavmw2pll7ky6yfj3gluyskqvkrfn9760970ad0psruaxpcqqmrc5v Richard Murphy It’s time the media admitted the City needs bonds and not vice versa https://www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2026/04/01/its-time-the-media-admitted-the-city-needs-bonds-and-not-vice-versa/ npub1j79mcavmw2pll7ky6yfj3gluyskqvkrfn9760970ad0psruaxpcqqmrc5v Richard Murphy The crises to come https://www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2026/04/30/the-crises-to-come/ npub1j79mcavmw2pll7ky6yfj3gluyskqvkrfn9760970ad0psruaxpcqqmrc5v Richard Murphy Tony Blair’s assault on the anxious, depressed and those with ADHD https://www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2026/04/28/tony-blairs-assault-on-the-anxious-depressed-and-those-with-adhd/ npub1j79mcavmw2pll7ky6yfj3gluyskqvkrfn9760970ad0psruaxpcqqmrc5v Richard Murphy Financial speculation is imposing a heavy price in this war https://www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2026/04/19/financial-speculation-is-imposing-a-heavy-price-in-this-war/ How can we end the financial speculation which is exploiting war at cost to society? npub1j79mcavmw2pll7ky6yfj3gluyskqvkrfn9760970ad0psruaxpcqqmrc5v Richard Murphy Why are we still handing massive unearned bungs to UK commercial banks? https://www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2026/04/16/why-are-we-still-handing-massive-unearned-bungs-to-uk-commercial-banks/ The government paid more than £25 billion to UK banks on balances gifted to them during the Covid era last year. Why, when there are so many better uses for that money? npub1j79mcavmw2pll7ky6yfj3gluyskqvkrfn9760970ad0psruaxpcqqmrc5v Richard Murphy The real risk of system breakdown https://www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2026/04/14/the-real-risk-of-system-breakdown/ Rachel Reeves was talking about luring tax exiles to the UK yesterday, when we face breakdown in food supplies and manufacturing systems. It's time she faced the real risk we face for economic system breakdown. npub1j79mcavmw2pll7ky6yfj3gluyskqvkrfn9760970ad0psruaxpcqqmrc5v Richard Murphy Only sound argument, good economics, and a politics of care can save us now https://www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2026/04/12/only-sound-argument-good-economics-and-a-politics-of-care-can-save-us-now/ The failure of peace talks is leaving us in a desperate position, here in the UK and across the world. Only sound economics and compassionate politics can save us now. npub1j79mcavmw2pll7ky6yfj3gluyskqvkrfn9760970ad0psruaxpcqqmrc5v Richard Murphy Dynamic pricing: the technology that could deliver massive harm and even famine to the UK https://www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2026/04/11/dynamic-pricing-the-technology-that-could-deliver-massive-harm-and-even-famine-to-the-uk/ npub1j79mcavmw2pll7ky6yfj3gluyskqvkrfn9760970ad0psruaxpcqqmrc5v Richard Murphy The stock market increases inequality, not wealth https://www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2026/04/09/the-stock-market-increases-inequality-not-wealth/ npub1j79mcavmw2pll7ky6yfj3gluyskqvkrfn9760970ad0psruaxpcqqmrc5v Richard Murphy This war is a long way from over as yet https://www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2026/04/08/this-war-is-a-long-way-from-over-as-yet/ Even if we do have a ceasefire this morning, the consequences of this war will last for decades, and we might all pay the price for that. npub1j79mcavmw2pll7ky6yfj3gluyskqvkrfn9760970ad0psruaxpcqqmrc5v Richard Murphy Has Trump surrendered? https://www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2026/04/08/has-trump-surrendered/ Trump threatened genocide yesterday, before backing down in a humiliating indication of perhaps the biggest US military defeat in its history if this peace deal does last and is confirmed. Whilst the immediate reaction is relief, the position remains profoundly uncertain, and Israel's reaction is utterly unpredictable, suggesting this relief might be short-lived. The likelihood is that this war and its consequences are a long way from being over. npub1j79mcavmw2pll7ky6yfj3gluyskqvkrfn9760970ad0psruaxpcqqmrc5v Richard Murphy The EU’s inappropriate response to the coming economic crisis https://www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2026/04/06/the-eus-inappropriate-response-to-the-coming-economic-crisis/ npub1j79mcavmw2pll7ky6yfj3gluyskqvkrfn9760970ad0psruaxpcqqmrc5v Richard Murphy The new political-economic reality https://www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2026/03/31/the-new-reality/ npub1j79mcavmw2pll7ky6yfj3gluyskqvkrfn9760970ad0psruaxpcqqmrc5v Richard Murphy We should not deal with fascists https://www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2026/03/30/we-should-not-deal-with-fascists/ npub1j79mcavmw2pll7ky6yfj3gluyskqvkrfn9760970ad0psruaxpcqqmrc5v Richard Murphy MMT and the job guarantee https://www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2026/03/29/mmt-and-the-job-guarantee/ npub1j79mcavmw2pll7ky6yfj3gluyskqvkrfn9760970ad0psruaxpcqqmrc5v Richard Murphy Why gas sets the price of electricity, and why the economics behind it makes no sense https://www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2026/03/17/why-gas-sets-the-price-of-electricity-and-why-the-economics-behind-it-makes-no-sense/ npub1j79mcavmw2pll7ky6yfj3gluyskqvkrfn9760970ad0psruaxpcqqmrc5v Richard Murphy This is no minor war. Its ramifications will reverberate for a very long time https://www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2026/03/16/this-is-no-minor-war-its-ramifications-will-reverberate-for-a-very-long-time/ npub1j79mcavmw2pll7ky6yfj3gluyskqvkrfn9760970ad0psruaxpcqqmrc5v Richard Murphy Who wins from this war? https://www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2026/03/15/who-wins-from-this-war/ npub1j79mcavmw2pll7ky6yfj3gluyskqvkrfn9760970ad0psruaxpcqqmrc5v Richard Murphy The coming crisis https://www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2026/03/06/the-coming-crisis-2/ npub1j79mcavmw2pll7ky6yfj3gluyskqvkrfn9760970ad0psruaxpcqqmrc5v Richard Murphy Rarely have we ever marched into the unknown so ill-equipped to manage the consequences https://www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2026/03/06/rarely-have-we-ever-marched-into-the-unknown-so-ill-equipped-to-manage-the-consequences/ npub1j79mcavmw2pll7ky6yfj3gluyskqvkrfn9760970ad0psruaxpcqqmrc5v Richard Murphy The insanity of war https://www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2026/03/04/the-insanity-of-war/ This was a day when fantasy met reality. The Office for Budget Responsibility's absurd claims came up hard against the reality of Zionist-inspired aggression and lost heavily. npub1j79mcavmw2pll7ky6yfj3gluyskqvkrfn9760970ad0psruaxpcqqmrc5v Richard Murphy Are we all modern monetary theorists when the chips are down? https://www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2026/03/02/are-we-all-modern-monetary-theorists-when-the-chips-are-down/ npub1j79mcavmw2pll7ky6yfj3gluyskqvkrfn9760970ad0psruaxpcqqmrc5v Richard Murphy This might be the tipping point https://www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2026/03/01/this-might-be-the-tipping-point/ Will stock markets crash in the morning? npub1j79mcavmw2pll7ky6yfj3gluyskqvkrfn9760970ad0psruaxpcqqmrc5v Richard Murphy The Greens: a new force in British politics https://www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2026/02/27/the-greens-a-new-force-in-british-politics/ npub1j79mcavmw2pll7ky6yfj3gluyskqvkrfn9760970ad0psruaxpcqqmrc5v Richard Murphy The real far-right agenda https://www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2026/02/26/the-real-far-right-agenda/ npub1j79mcavmw2pll7ky6yfj3gluyskqvkrfn9760970ad0psruaxpcqqmrc5v Richard Murphy Reform is planning the destruction of well-being of people, communities, ways of life and, quite candidly, this country as it has always been - which is a small island state that has always offered a welcome to people coming and going, adding value when they decide to stay and make this their home, in all the rich diversity that we have to offer. Literally, what Farage is planning is to tear us apart. https://www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2026/02/23/farage-wants-to-tear-us-apart/ npub1j79mcavmw2pll7ky6yfj3gluyskqvkrfn9760970ad0psruaxpcqqmrc5v Richard Murphy An article in the Guardian this weekend showed just how dangerous the household budget myth is. The UK is not precariously poor, but the myths by which the Treasury and government manage the country are dangerous, condemning us to decline. https://www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2026/02/23/condemning-ourselves-to-decline/ npub1j79mcavmw2pll7ky6yfj3gluyskqvkrfn9760970ad0psruaxpcqqmrc5v Richard Murphy Yesterday, the USA took a step away from fascism https://www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2026/02/21/yesterday-the-usa-took-a-step-away-from-fascism/ npub1j79mcavmw2pll7ky6yfj3gluyskqvkrfn9760970ad0psruaxpcqqmrc5v Richard Murphy January’s record tax receipts: the real story that was not told https://www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2026/02/21/januarys-record-tax-receipts-the-real-story-that-was-not-told/ npub1j79mcavmw2pll7ky6yfj3gluyskqvkrfn9760970ad0psruaxpcqqmrc5v Richard Murphy First they came for the intellectuals https://www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2026/02/18/first-they-came-for-the-intellectuals/ Rupert Lowe's Restore Britain party is promising to sweep 'Anti-British", "anti-white" elements out of our universities and schools. Doing so, he is copying the Nazi playbook of 1933. If you're not worried now, you should be. npub1j79mcavmw2pll7ky6yfj3gluyskqvkrfn9760970ad0psruaxpcqqmrc5v Richard Murphy SEND for the bankers https://www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2026/02/14/send-for-the-bankers/ Fiscal rules look like they will be used to deny children and others with special educational needs the chances they need in life. And, yes, I am very angry about that. npub1j79mcavmw2pll7ky6yfj3gluyskqvkrfn9760970ad0psruaxpcqqmrc5v Richard Murphy Trump has the green light for concentration camps https://www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2026/02/08/trump-has-the-green-light-for-concentration-camps/ npub1j79mcavmw2pll7ky6yfj3gluyskqvkrfn9760970ad0psruaxpcqqmrc5v Richard Murphy Labour: the friend of cheats, crooks, and conpeople https://www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2026/01/29/labour-the-friend-of-cheats-crooks-and-conpeople/ npub1j79mcavmw2pll7ky6yfj3gluyskqvkrfn9760970ad0psruaxpcqqmrc5v Richard Murphy If the state can kill an observer and then lie about it, the question is not just who is safe, but who is believed. https://www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2026/01/25/if-the-state-can-kill-an-observer-and-then-lie-about-it-the-question-is-not-just-who-is-safe-but-who-is-believed/ npub1j79mcavmw2pll7ky6yfj3gluyskqvkrfn9760970ad0psruaxpcqqmrc5v Richard Murphy 2026 looks as if it will be a brutal year https://www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2026/01/21/2026-looks-as-if-it-will-be-a-brutal-year/ npub1j79mcavmw2pll7ky6yfj3gluyskqvkrfn9760970ad0psruaxpcqqmrc5v Richard Murphy Denmark’s real defence mechanism is its pharmaceutical trade https://www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2026/01/19/denmarks-real-defence-mechanism-is-its-pharmaceutical-trade/ npub1j79mcavmw2pll7ky6yfj3gluyskqvkrfn9760970ad0psruaxpcqqmrc5v Richard Murphy Do we succumb to the politics of might, or choose the politics of care? That's the challenge the world faces now. https://www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2026/01/18/do-we-succumb-to-the-politics-of-might-or-choose-the-politics-of-care/ npub1j79mcavmw2pll7ky6yfj3gluyskqvkrfn9760970ad0psruaxpcqqmrc5v Richard Murphy The toxic politics of might and money https://www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2026/01/17/the-toxic-politics-of-might-and-money/ npub1j79mcavmw2pll7ky6yfj3gluyskqvkrfn9760970ad0psruaxpcqqmrc5v Richard Murphy Zack Polanski, migration, the Greens, and an economics of care https://www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/12/26/zak-polanski-migration-the-greens-and-an-economics-of-care/
