Richard Murphy

1 week ago | taxresearch.org.uk | Richard Murphy

This comes from a journal called Pulse, which is a weekly publication aimed at medics, and GPs in particular:Weight-loss drugs cannot be seen as short-term solutions by the NHS and GPs will inevitably need to engage with obesity management as the medicines are rolled out, researchers have said. Researchers from the University of Oxford said that while the medications are highly effective in helping patients lose weight, their recent findings strike a ‘cautionary note' on how they are best used.

1 week ago | taxresearch.org.uk | Richard Murphy

The OECD has published a new report on the state of global teenage career preparation. As they say on their website:This report sets out key findings from the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) as they relate to teenage career development.

1 week ago | taxresearch.org.uk | Richard Murphy

As the Greenpeace website notes:Back in 2021, Labour Shadow Chancellor Rachel Reeves said she'd be Britain's first “Green Chancellor”. Labour's annual conference that year even had the tagline “A fairer, greener future”. Reeves proudly announced that a Labour government would invest £28 billion a year in green capital investment, every year, until 2030. As we know, that £28 billion commitment was abandoned before Labour even got into office.

1 week ago | taxresearch.org.uk | Richard Murphy

As The Guardian has noted this morning:A federal trade court on Wednesday blocked Donald Trump from imposing sweeping tariffs on imports under an emergency-powers law. The ruling from a three-judge panel at the New York-based court of international trade came after several lawsuits arguing Trump has exceeded his authority, left US trade policy dependent on his whims and unleashed economic chaos.

1 week ago | taxresearch.org.uk | Richard Murphy

The Labour government claims that it cannot afford to pay benefits for the elderly, children in poverty, and people with disabilities. That is nonsense. Simple economic analysis shows that these benefits pay for themselves.