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Taxpayers' Alliance? Not in our name

Matthew Elliott of the offers a long personal account of the non-tax paying non-executive director – who later became his father in law. That crowds out any opportunity to respond to a rather more important question. The Taxpayers' Alliance may just be ...

From SUNDER KATWALA, Comment Is Free,  14 Oct 2009
Related Topics: Matthew Elliott,  UK Conservative Party,  Tim Horton,  National Health Service

Should school fees receive tax breaks?

YES: Andrew Grant, Chairman of the Headmasters and Headmistresses Conference Every private school head would love for it to be possible for more children to benefit from the excellence that our schools represent and for their school to make a bigger ...

From ANDREW GRANT AND SUNDER KATWALA, Times Online,  8 Oct 2009
Related Topics: National Health Service,  Alan Milburn

It's now or never

Fifty-four per cent of the public believe the MPs' expenses crisis provides a "once-in-a-generation" chance for a major overhaul to improve our democracy. By contrast, 27% feel our system is "tried and tested" and that it would be a mistake to change ...

From SUNDER KATWALA, Comment Is Free,  22 Jul 2009
Related Topics: Roy Jenkins,  John Yorke Denham,  Alan Johnson,  Ben Bradshaw,  James Purnell

When is inequality unfair?

"I just don't believe that £42,000 is in the top [10%]. I would obviously have thought there is more than 25% of the country earn more than she does". New Fabian research by Louise Bamfield and Tim Horton, published by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation ( ...

From SUNDER KATWALA, Guardian Unlimited,  23 Jun 2009
Related Topics: Tim Horton,  National Health Service

Leaders of the pact?

The time has come to think the unthinkable, argues Sunder Katwala: a coalition between Labour and the Lib Dems The dream team: Gordon Brown (centre) should invite Nick Clegg (right) to be deputy prime minister with Vince Cable (left) as chancellor Even ...

From SUNDER KATWALA, New Statesman,  29 Jan 2009
Related Topics: Liberal Democrats,  Gordon Brown,  Nick Clegg,  David Cameron,  Barack Obama

Sunder Katwala: New Labour was still always Labour

The boundaries between New and Old Labour were always blurred. After all, New Labour before 1997 was the party of the windfall tax, the minimum wage and anger at "fat cat" rewards for failure. It didn't talk about tax and spend. But it "invested and ...

From SUNDER KATWALA, Guardian Unlimited,  26 Nov 2008
Related Topics: Tony Blair,  Polly Toynbee,  Gordon Brown,  National Health Service,  Barbara Castle

Sunder Katwala: Speculation about a snap election is nonsense, even if Labour is ahead

Sunder Katwala: Speculation about a snap election is nonsense, even if the momentum has shifted back to ...

From SUNDER KATWALA, Guardian Unlimited,  20 Nov 2008
Related Topics: David Cameron,  Michael Howard

Sunder Katwala: When will we see a British Obama?

Sunder Katwala: Skin colour should be less of an issue for budding politicians but non-white candidates will still face class ...

From SUNDER KATWALA, Guardian Unlimited,  6 Nov 2008
Related Topics: Barack Obama

Why a British Obama is close than we think, Sunder Katwala

Black and Asian candidates are making real progress up the British political ladder, argues Sunder Katwala. Nobody can say when we might see a British Barack Obama. In many ways, Obama could be a once in a lifetime strike of political lightning.   But ...

From SUNDER KATWALA, openDemocracy,  6 Nov 2008
Related Topics: Barack Obama,  House of Commons,  UK Conservative Party,  Harriet Harman,  Keith Vaz

The government must sort out council tax

The Tories plan to scrap the disliked tax - now Labour must regain the initiative, say Chris Leslie and Sunder ...

From SUNDER KATWALA, Guardian Unlimited,  8 Oct 2008
Related Topics: Chris Young

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