I like this take on Lord Young’s resignation: Lord Young of Graffham had no choice but to stand down as David Cameron’s ‘enterprise tsar’ having
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In 1819 David Ricardo promoted the idea of comparative advantage in trade. He used this example (which I have borrowed from Wikipedia in this form):
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Yet more evidence that the Channel Islands’ VAT abuse is having serious impact on UK small business has turned up on this blog: I think
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The Tax Justice Network has a blog highlighting the abuse caused by the Channel Island’s VAT abuse. As they say: Today, bang on cue, TJN
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Ireland has, in all but name, gone bust. Contagion — to UK and German banks and through the capital markets to Portugal, Spain and even
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The VAT abuse promoted by the Channel Islands and undertaken by the likes of Tesco, HMV, ASDA and Sainsburys is costing the UK more than
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  As I have mentioned here, more than once, over the last few years, somewhat I gather to his chagrin, Bono famously fled Ireland’s corporate
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Who said that? Why, George Osborne, in 2006. He was wrong then. And it looks like he’s learned nothing since.

Michael Gove is planning, for all practical purposes,to end sport in UK schools. As the Observer notes: A battle is raging at the heart of
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