The antidote to Gordon Brown’s caution | David Wearing | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk . David Wearing, writing about last weekend’s Fabian conference has
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The BBC and many others report: The singer and activist Billy Bragg has threatened not to pay his taxes in protest against the bonuses being
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FT Alphaville » Mervyn readies his pen. The consumer price index approaches 3% so quantiative easing must end, intrest rates must rise and we must
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My latest Forbes column is out. Entitled ‘Precious Little Prudence’ it asks ‘When is a debt a bad thing–do accountants really even know?’ As I
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FT Alphaville ¬ª Cadbury, Kraft sweeten up. It’s a long time since Cadbury was a Quaker business. But somewhere deep down it still thought it
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FT.com / Columnists / Philip Stephens – How the big banks rigged the market. Excellent to see a columnist asking why and how banks make
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FT.com / UK / Politics & policy – Darling sharpens axe on spending. The FT notes: Alistair Darling will order ministers this week to start
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Swiss Banker Blows Whistle on Tax Evasion – NYTimes.com. Ruedi Elmer continues his brave and lonely work. As he says: Offshore tax evasion is the
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FT.com / Lex / Finance & governance – Auditors. The Lex column of the FT notes: Welcome to the real world. UK audit firms will
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