Richard Murphy

Richard Murphy is Professor of Accounting Practice, Sheffield University Management School and a long-time campaigner for economic justice. He writes on economics, politics tax and accounting on his blog at http://www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/. He tweets as @RichardJMurphy

Be careful what you wish for – the Tories won’t change if Johnson goes

The UK prime minister’s departure will give even more power to the far Right of the party – the zealots who brought you Brexit and the COVID fiascos

By Richard Murphy

/ 19 Jan 2022

Be careful what you wish for – the Tories won’t change if Johnson goes

Boris doesn't care who he alienates with his regressive tax proposals

Most working people, the young, the poor and middling including many Brexit voters, much of middle England and almost all Scots, will lose out under Johnson's plan. But he doesn’t care.

By Richard Murphy

/ 11 Jun 2019

Boris doesn't care who he alienates with his regressive tax proposals

The cracks begin to show: a review of the UK economy in 2015 (part one)

On the first day of 2016 trading the FTSE 500 index nosedived. This surprised perennially optimistic business commentators, but will not surprise those who read the EREP review of the UK economy in 2015. Read part two here.

By Ann Pettifor, Andrew Simms, Richard Murphy, John Weeks, Jeremy Smith and Özlem Onaran

/ 5 Jan 2016

The cracks begin to show: a review of the UK economy in 2015 (part two)

Thus, the ultra-flexible UK labour market (“with employers in the driving seat”, in the government’s own charming words) – to be enhanced by the repressive new Trade Union Act – has had the effect of causing productivity to fall. Read part one here.

By Ann Pettifor, Andrew Simms, Richard Murphy, John Weeks, Jeremy Smith and Özlem Onaran

/ 5 Jan 2016

An 'NHS Tax' is not the answer

Labour is considering an NHS tax, we are told. But whether through National Insurance, or some other market tax, this is a regressive, market-friendly policy.

By Richard Murphy

/ 15 Sep 2014

Britain's budget 2012: an overview of the elephant traps

Today the Chancellor presented his third budget since the Coalition gained power and ushered in the era of austerity. Tax expert Richard Murphy decodes a "really rather nasty budget" and ponders its gifts to the opposition.

By Richard Murphy

/ 21 Mar 2012

Merkel and Sarkozy are proposing a catastrophe that will destroy the left across Europe

The entire continent is being steered towards disaster - for the sake of economically nonsensical policies that benefit only the banks while decimating societies.

By Richard Murphy

/ 8 Dec 2011

A plea to St Paul's: follow Christ's teachings and support #OccupyLondon

London's tent city is on sacred land - the skirts of St Paul's Cathedral. The Cathedral's position on the occupation will be crucial for its future. Will it remember Christ's mission to free the oppressed and bring good news to the poor?

By Richard Murphy

/ 21 Oct 2011

Osborne has got almost everything wrong, cuts are exactly the wrong way to go

The UK's deficit cutting plan is not going to work.

By Richard Murphy

/ 14 Apr 2011

The tax justice movement needs policy proposals: A response to Stuart Weir

How do we reconcile the idealistic aspirations of the tax justice movement with the pragmatic need for reform? Richard Murphy, director of Tax Research LLP, sets out proposals.

By Richard Murphy

/ 20 Jan 2011