Reuters reported today that: Switzerland must tackle the problem of untaxed money in secret accounts and also must ensure the central bank does not become a
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This was drawn to my attention today by Alex Andreou and I copy this from his blog: I was interested to see the following announcement
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This data from the New York Times makes clear who has benefited most and least from the US recession: So companies have won and paid less tax
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Matt Sissons has reviewed my book The Courageous State on the Why Politics? blog. I won’t reproduce the whole review, and it’s fair to note
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Up to 20,000 HMRC staff are expected to strike at some time tomorrow. The reason why they’re doing so is simple: HMRC, in the face of damning
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Will Hutton made an interesting point in the Observer yesterday: Fewer than 150,000 jobs are directly involved in the making of [1.4 million cars and
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IPPR produced a report on globalisation last week. With a forward by Lord Mandelson the report was written by Will Straw and Alex Glennie. I
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Like the Labour Party I have major problems with the government’s pursuit of a ‘happiness’ agenda. I have long felt ‘happiness’ a vacuous goal. That’s
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