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The UK’s out-of-control consumerist ethos
There’s an article in the Guardian this morning that reports: The recent riots in London and other big cities were the product of an “out-of-control
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The Tories, the Big Society and Jersey
The Jersey Evening Post has published a gushing report saying: PRIME Minister David Cameron should come to Jersey to see his vision of the ‘Big
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Is the EU now a real threat to democracy as well as economic recovery?
As the Guardian noted today, there appears to be an enormous price attached to the measures needed to stabilise the Eurozone to meet the demands
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Banks are moving their dud assets in their pension funds
As the FT reports: Some of Britain’s biggest banks have begun quietly ridding themselves of billions of pounds of assets they have found difficult to
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PFI – surely the game is over?
As Tom Clark notes in the Guardian this morning: The private finance initiative was devised to get schools, hospitals and roads built without swelling the government’s
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Jersey and the Isle of Man – back before the European Union
As I have noted (more than once) Jersey and the Isle of Man failed the requirements of the EU Code of Conduct on Business Taxation last year.
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Is the BBC scared of tax havens?
Nick Shaxson has written a finely reasoned argument that this might be true, here. Strongly recommended. It does, of course, accord with my own thesis
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The left are fighting capitalism’s excess – and some have been doing for for a long time
In an article in the Observer this morning Julian Coman says: Why are the failings of capitalism only being exposed by the right? It used
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