It is rare that a newspaper like the Financial Times will think that there is only one real headline news story, but that is the
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Tax havens – or secrecy jurisdictions – are an abomination on the global economic landscape that should have been consigned to history long ago. This
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It is another day where there is much more to say than there is time to do it in. Trump’s actions in seeking to control
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As The Guardian has noted: Britain is on track to become a “National Health State” where half of all public spending is allocated to the
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People still like to talk about having ‘money in the bank’. But they haven’t. They just have a bank statement from a bank, with a
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A sound of my childhood, remembered with gratitude. RIP, Brian Wilson. What do I most remember about Beach Boys songs? The total incomprehension at where
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The Spending Review dominated my day yesterday, and I went out for a long walk last night to forget all about it. Most of the
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I was inspired by SubStack writer ‘Aurelian’ to add a definition of democracy to the glossary yesterday. This is as follows: There is no consensus
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As the Office for National Statistics have reported this morning: Monthly real gross domestic product (GDP) is estimated to have fallen by 0.3% in April
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