Dominic Frisby Interviewed by Nick Higham

Financial writer Dominic Frisby argues that there is a tax story near the heart of all of humanity’s defining events from the Magna Carta to modern political debates and considers whether there are alternative ways to fund services.

Tax is power, says Frisby, and, without it, kings, emperors and governments lose their power. They paid for man to step on the moon and funded every war. Every revolution was against injustice perpetrated by a tax system. Frisby argues that many of the problems we face today, including wealth gaps between the rich and poor and between generations, can be traced back to tax. And he asks whether there are better ways to fund our public services.

Frisby is author of Life after the State and Bitcoin: the Future of Money?, the first book on bitcoin from a recognised publisher. He is also a stand-up comedian. Here he talks to BBC journalist Nick Higham, who was the BBC’s first ever media correspondent and, until recently, presenter of Meet the Author on the BBC news channel.