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‘The Digital and Green Revolutions Compared’
John Redwood’s Lecture, All Souls College, Oxford: ‘The Digital and Green Revolutions Compared’
Friday 8th March 2024
11:00 – 12:30
All Soul College, Old Library, Oxford
- The Green and Digital revolutions
• Green. Top down, set out by governments and large corporations
• Advanced by subsidies, tax breaks for green...Read More »
The NI fund
The NI fund last year collected £129 bn in NI contributions from employers and employees. More than half came from employers. It paid out £110 bn on pensions and was left with a surplus after its small contribution to other benefits.
The pension itself is paid to people over retirement age...Read More »
Dear Colleague from Robbie Moore regarding the Storm Overflow Action Plan
Please find enclosed below the Dear Colleague that I have received from Robbie Moore concerning the Storm Overflow Action Plan:
...Read More »NI, the pension and the contributory principle
Beveridge nationalised the popular and successful contributory or insurance principle. Working men in the 1940s paid weekly into “the club”, “the social” or “the sick”, charities and societies that paid them assistance if they fell ill or lost their weekly wage. They believed in working to keep their families and...Read More »
Why cut National Insurance again?
I do not recall MPs and constituents calling for a further reduction in National Insurance. Readers of this site will remember the list of targeted tax cuts I requested, led by IR 35, VAT Threshold, and energy taxes . Others urged Income tax thresholds, Stamp duty and the tourist tax.
I...Read More »