I am aware, as Bill Dodwell was keen to emphasise in this morning’s spat on Starbucks, that Vince Cable had BIS staff review Starbuck’s accounts
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Ivan Horrocks, for whose thinking I have much regard, wrote this as a comment on the blog this morning, responding to the story about the Public Accounts
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This is too good not to listen to (file can’t be embedded so opens in separate link). Bill Dodwell claimed Starbucks makes no profit in the
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In the CLASS think tank paper that Howard Reed and I have written that reconsideres Beveridge’s concept of idleness in a 21st century frameowrk we
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The Public Accounts Committee has spoken: the relationship between the Big 4 firms of accountants and HMRC is far too close and is a threat
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The FT has noted: The spotlight directed on Thursday at UK Financial Investments went down badly in the Treasury. The attention sparked by the resignation of
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From Philip Stephens in the FT this morning: What circumstance now demands of politicians is the confidence to break free of the defunct, and debunked,
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This was one of the Conservatives’ election posters: I wonder if Julie for Llandudno thinks that now?

In the executive summary of the report on delivering full employment that Howard Reed and I have written for the CLASS think tank we argue that there
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