Fascinating argument by Larry Elliott in the Guardian this morning: Every bubble in recent years has had its signature deal that marks the point when the frenzy
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The Education Maintenance Allowance to ensure sixth formers could aford to stay at school cost the UK £560 million a year. 600,000 students benefited. The Tories have axed it
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Glencore is always spoken of as a Swiss company. That’s not true. The prospectus says: Is there anyone who thinks that’s anything but a tax dodge? If
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Tim Horton of the Fabian Society wrote this on the Left Foot Forward blog today, and it’s too good not to borrow, so I hope
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European Voice reports: Officials are hoping that next week’s (17 May) meeting of finance ministers will at last see movement on the EU’s plans to harmonise savings
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A while ago I reported stories in the Telegraph concerning the arrangements made by some major UK horticultural companies to supply plants to the UK
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Good for Polly Toynbee: There are no mysteries about poverty, neither its causes nor its cures — which are more jobs, more money, more education
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As the Guardian notes: Labour MP Chuka Umunna fears HMRC’s handling of the Goldman Sachs deal will lead the public to believe that there is
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This (from the Guardian) is the history of deficits since 1980. Labour repaid more debt than Thatcher by a long way and for a longer
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