Lloyds facing £54m tax bill after HBOS ruling | Business | guardian.co.uk . Lloyds Banking Group, which is 43% state-owned, has failed in its latest
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Britain faces “revenue crisis” not a spending crisis | Left Foot Forward. Looks like I got blogged on what I said at the TUC this
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Gillian Tett at the TUC: Building an economy around Canary Wharf was nuts and Over the last few years the financial sector built a candy
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I’m at the TUC this morning So is Rowan Williams — Archbishop of Canterbury. He says the Greek for economics is ‘housekeeping — and it
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World Vision have sent me a briefing on a new campaign they are launching. I guess a blog has reached critical mass when such things
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The Guardian has noted: The controversial tax on financial transactions endorsed by Gordon Brown and Lord Turner, the top City regulator, was last night beginning
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The Observer has reported: Alistair Darling should levy a £5bn "empty property tax" on up to a million homes left vacant by absentee landlords, to
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Midnight express — East Coast rail back in public hands | ToUChstone blog: A public policy blog from the TUC. Trade unions want the East
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The following has been issued by Christian Aid, Global Witness and tear Fund and is too important not to note: Doha:  A handful of countries
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