I have posted this thread to Twitter: The Tory leadership campaign grinds on. The offers from both candidates continue to make no sense. The coming
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The ONS has published GDP data for June. This summarises the situation: June was bad if GDP growth is the objective (and our political parties,
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I am pleased to report that the Global Initiative for Financial Transparency has approved its new Principles for Tax Transparency. In itself, I think this
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My Twitter thread format appears to be popular, with publications lifting them for use in other media. Prospect did so, again, yesterday: So too did
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I seem to be a popular podcast guest at the moment. This is the latest, from CommonWeal in Scotland: New Policy Podcast! This week, Craig
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I posted this on Twitter last night: Gordon Brown has suggested temporarily nationalising energy companies that struggle over the next year or two, before handing
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I just posted this thread on Twitter: The Tory leadership election is offering the party faithful an image of a land about to flow with
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I had the strangest feeling yesterday afternoon. At round 4pm, when doing academic work, I suddenly realised that for the first time in four weeks
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If you have made the mistake of following the Tory leadership election then you will, presuming you suspended your disbelief, now know that we are
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