The Independent notes: Plans to make the long-term unemployed do unpaid manual labour for their benefits could push vulnerable people into a "downward spiral of
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As the FT has noted, Robert Zoellick, president of the World Bank, has called for the re-establishment of the gold standard.Admittedly, this is not the
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George Irvin, professor emeritus at SOAS and a co-author of mine, has written a great article for the Guardian’s Comment is Free on the myths
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As the Observer notes: Campaigners have threatened to extend direct action protests after once again forcing Vodafone stores to shut. Activists have gathered under the
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I have discussed the Swiss withholding tax agreements with the UK and Germany (and to follow elsewhere) at some length because of the massive abuse
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Iain Duncan Smith is to take away the jobseeker’s allowance of 1.4 million people if they refuse to undertake periods of compulsory full-time work in
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I’m writing on a day when I’m speaking at a TUC event on the need for tax justice. On the day when demonstrators will, I
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As Nicola Smith at the TUC has reported, when George Osborne claimed the following he wasn’t quite telling the whole truth:: Today there are some
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The Family Wealth Report has reported today that: Barclays Wealth has launched a national US trust company, called Barclays Wealth Trustees and to be based
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