Common sense would have it that balancing a budget makes sense. I guess it all goes gack to Dickens and his maxim that if income
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Simon Jenkins wrote that this morning, in the Guardian. He’s right. In one of his annoyingly good articles (annoying because he can also write such nonsense) this wisdom
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The Elysee Palace have issued a press release that says (near enough): The President of the Republic received together this afternoon, at the Elysee Palace,
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From the TJN blog (borrowed, with thanks, it’s been a busy morning) This is an extraordinary story, from the UK’s Daily Mail: The average salary package paid to each
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I was asked to explain what tax was for in six tweets this morning. This is what I wrote:

I borrow this, shamelessly and with his permission, from Alex Andreou in the New Statesman: “I’m not here to defend privilege. I’m here to spread it”,
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The American Petroleum Institute – representing all the major US oil companies – has launched a law suit against the SEC in the USA to block the
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For those who want to know why the economy is in a mess, and how Osborne got it all wrong there are two outstanding articles
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Straight from the Guardian editorial this morning, without much apology: Radicals have long understood the importance of the garden. Now the New Economics Foundation has got the
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