For those wondering what they’d wish for in the budget might I recommend Chapter 8 of ‘Over here and under-taxed’ which offers a whole raft
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One of the most unusual moments during the Olympics was when the main stadium seemed, as a person, to boo George Osborne when he took
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I wrote two blogs yesterday on what I called the Tory revolution – the plan to sell off as much of the government as possible
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I wrote about the ‘Tory revolution’ this morning. That’s the process I described in The Courageous State where this government (and to some extent the New Labour
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Economia magazine has reported: The government’s Insolvency Service is on the verge of becoming insolvent, according to reports The group needed an emergency injection of
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The OECD is acknowledging that aggressive tax planning (ATP) is more extensive and damaging than they have previously admitted. Take this by the OECD, issued yesterday, acknowledging
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The FT’s noted this morning: Qatar has begun talks with the UK government to invest up to £10bn from the gas-rich Middle Eastern state into
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This comes from the Guardian this morning: The feverish atmosphere [in the Conservative Party] is highlighted in today’s Spectator whose political editor, James Forsyth, reports that
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I look at this picture and the images on television last night and all I see is a worried man:   As well he might
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