I’ve been called by a several reporters this week wanting to talk to me about UK Uncut. I’m not sure why, because I’ve never met
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I have the following letter in the Guardian today: Simon Jenkins is right that VAT is the wrong tax at the wrong moment (Save the
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The claim made by George Osborne that VAT is progressive has been rightly dismissed by many, including me. Prof George Irvin does so here. I
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The 2011 research workshop co-organised by the Association for Accountancy & Business Affairs and the Tax Justice Network will explore connections between debt, tax justice
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Neal Lawson, the chair of Compass, is asking the right questions in the Guardian this morning: To take back some semblance of control [in our
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Food prices are reported to be at an all time world high. So is petrol and diesel in the UK. Things like cotton prices are
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HMV is shutting sixty stores. OK, only 40 are music and video stores; I accept that. But for those 40 and all who will lose
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The Guardian has reported: Thousands of older patients are being forced to stay in hospital long after they are fit enough to leave, doctors are
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Simon Jenkins is a perplexing, and confused man. He’s written a piece for the Guardian in which he strongly criticises, on Keynesian grounds, the rise
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