London 8 October 2018: The first episode in Series 1 of The Real Agenda, the podcast for political change is now available on iTunes. In the first episode, we go to the frontline of poverty, the harsh reality of life, which impacts 14 million real people of the 65 million in the UK. However you define poverty, it is bad, we will be looking not so much at the help we can give to alleviate the suffering, but how we can tackle the underlying fundamental problems, that’s The Real

As an adviser to Tax Justice UK, I was invited to the Fair Tax conference in London recently. No-one really likes paying taxes, but if we are to have civilised society that provides or enables the things that we cannot provide as an individual on our own, then tax is essential. My late father, who was a professional economist, wrote a book called Public Revenue without Taxation – but that’s a story for another time. Today, our tax system is grossly unfair, grossly over compli