The Guardian reports: Britain’s stagnating economy faces months of gloom after a series of business surveys showed profits down and confidence among industry bosses waning.
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I spent some time in the company of doctors at the weekend, as is often my habit. Several asked me why the government has announced
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As stuff.co.nz reports: Tax haven activist Nicholas Shaxson has hit out at New Zealand for opposing a plan to create a UN body to tackle
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The US budget went though in the end. There was the inevitable horse trading. One important part – to get the deal through the Republicans
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The Bermuda Royal Gazette reports: Bermuda is the “jewel in the crown” of the British Overseas Territories and is not a tax haven, according to
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I think you know my answer to that, but I wasn’t asking. Reuters were. As they put it: Tax havens have been blamed (and lauded
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From the Guardian today (and following on from the Billy Bragg article I commented on this morning): In everything I have ever written or done
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I discussed this on Radio 2 yesterday. Listen again, here.

I have the following article in the latest edition of the London Review of Books: In his budget last month George Osborne announced that if
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