Most days somebody makes a donation on this weblog by hitting the ‘purchase me a espresso’ button. I’m genuinely grateful: this weblog prices cash in addition to quite a lot of time to run.

I additionally do, I admit, eat greater than my justifiable share of espresso. Most afternoons proper now yow will discover me within the backyard of the Poets Home Lodge in Ely (they are saying there isn’t any apostrophe) with a espresso, a pc, an iPad and a cellphone at hand:

This tends to be the place the intense writing of the day will get accomplished. Proper now meaning work on a brand new report on wealth taxes – and their capability to supply the extra tax revenues that our economic system wants. To be printed in phases, I hope to discover all features of this problem and to supply a menu of choices with which to problem any politician who says ‘there isn’t any cash left’, as a result of there most definitely is.