Adam Curtis wrote this recently on his BBC blog under the above title: The guiding idea at the heart of today’s political system is freedom
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Vince Cable and I talked quite a bit at one time. Then he got into government and things changed and fault lines appeared. Well, so
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This video is on the web site of Church Action on Poverty right now, whose campaign for Fair Taxes I am pleased to support: When
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I wrote the following on 20 October 2008. Not much has changed since then (regrettably) and we’re now heading for another banking crisis, so I offer it
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George Osborne agrees the Euro is in a crisis and urgent action is needed The IMF say a vicious circle of weak growth and weak balance sheets
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It seems worth reproducing the following exchange from Hansard this week in full: Jonathan Edwards: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what assessment he
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It seems a matter of great delight to some in the Crown Dependencies that the EU has finally aproved their much altered tax systems. As has
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It looks like the trolls are out again. Saying ‘you’re wrong’ is not debate.  And it’s deleted as a result – as I say I
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The Isle of Man Today web site is noting, as I have this morning, that the EU has given tentative approval to the revised tax system in
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