From the Guardian, this morning: The current recession is even deeper than had been thought – and started more than a year ago – as
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Greening RBS
FT.com / UK / Politics & policy – Green groups to sue over RBS investments. Environmental groups on Monday night launched what could be a
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MPs to file tax returns on public record?
David Drew, MP for Stroud in Gloucestershire has tabled amendments to the Parliamentary Standards Bill which should put the cat amongst the pigeons. The first
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Brown utterly misses the point
From the Guardian (edited): Gordon Brown unveiled a manifesto entitled Building Britain’s Future and a draft Queen’s speech containing 12 bills. The overall aim was
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Enough Economics: new blog
Chaps supporting chaps
From this morning’s Guardian: Banks benefited from a spate of positive reports yesterday, with Lloyds Banking Group the biggest riser in the leading index after
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Fund managers are not the same as investors: it’s time we remembered that
Brendan Barber has written on the TUC blog, saying: We’ve been examining the voting records of institutional investors for seven years now at the TUC,
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The hypocrisy of cocaine
Yes, addicts need help. But all you casual cocaine users want locking up | George Monbiot | Comment is free | The Guardian . I
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Time for a ‘pension tax’ on companies
The FT reports: The BT Group Pension Scheme — the UK’s largest private sector retirement fund — had only enough money at the end of
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