My country? What does that mean? Which country? When it does not know? The one of my birth? Or the one of my forebears? And
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This was yesterday, in response to a recent post. There are no prizes for guessing where. But you’re welcome to try.

I love this opening paragraph from George Monbiot in The Guardian today: It is hard to believe today, but the prevailing ethos among the educated
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This is fair warning: I have run out of steam and blogging is going to have low priority over the next few days. I have
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I was fascinated by this comment in The Guardian, published this morning: Warnings by landlords that taxes on buy-to-let would cripple the property market, driving down supply
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I still do not have the video of the above debate, which took place a couple of weeks ago at the OECD. However, the International
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I was called yesterday morning by Talk Radio and asked if I would take part in a discussion on whether or not the IFS were
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The UK is a low tax nation. I point this out because the Institute for Fiscal Studies has said that if we want to balance
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The fact that accountancy firm Grant Thornton is to part company with its CEO,  Sacha Romanovitch, has made headline news. No doubt that is in
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