Andrew Dilnot is a man with whom I have had differences of opinion. But his recommendations on care seem to have some merit to them.
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As the gap on pay and pensions widens between directors and other staff, British business should disclose the ratio between their highest and lowest paid
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The US right wing is threatening to push the whole world economy into crisis – and yet the issue seems to have hardly been mentioned
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Bloomberg has reported in the last hour or so that: Standard & Poor’s said the debt rollover plan for Greece may temporarily place the country
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According to the Observer, tomorrow: Senior Liberal Democrats are demanding drastic action to break up UK banks into separate retail and investment divisions, as banking reform threatens
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From tomorrow’s Observer (but on line tonight): The significant role that British banks are playing in the Greek financial crisis, as documented in the Observer last
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The latest ONS data on pop[ulation growth revealed the extraordinary fact that now we have a 50% tax rate in the UK fewer people emigrated.
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Whenever there’s talk of tax increases we always get the same response: the rich will leave. Let’s ;eave aside whether that would be a good
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