Despite what many like to claim this blog is pretty much written in my spare time: it’s why I work rather too many hours a day. I
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I think it's time to say some things about Cyprus. The people of Cyprus are, I suspect, rightly frightened this evening, and why not? Whatever
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Neil Kinnock said this in a speech in Bridgend, Glamorgan, on Tuesday 7 June 1983: If Margaret Thatcher is re-elected as prime minister on Thursday,
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Paul Krugman has written about Cyprus in a refreshing way, saying: A couple of years ago, the journalist Nicholas Shaxson published a fascinating, chilling book
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I’ve taken one last look a some of the absurd budget assumptions implicit in the claims made by Osborne. The data I’m using is here: I have already done
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These are the key economic assumptions underpinning the UK budget: There are some extraordinary comments in here. First, there’s no obvious reason why growth picks
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The schedule on the implications of tax avoidance and evasion measures in the budget are interesting. First, excuse my cynicism for thinking they jut happen
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Jersey, Guernsey and the Isle of Man like to say there is no tax evasion in those places. Maybe they’d like to explain why HMRC
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The scale of George Osborne’s tax giveaway to big business became very much clearer in yesterday’s budget. The headline tax collection forecasts are as follows:   Income
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