Danny Dorling has just accepted a chair at Oxford. I suggest that this is why: The elite is shrinking. It really is now only 1%
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I suggested yesterday that we should tax vacant properties, heavily. It is an idea I first proposed for the TUC in 2009. I stick by
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To follow on from my last post on who benefits from benefits, I am grateful to Flip Chart Fairy Tales for drawing my attention to this
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I don’t like the term ‘benefits’. It’s patronising; the term social security is correct, in my opinion. So I use the term ‘benefits’ reluctantly, but
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There is much comment in papers today about Tory appointments of rich men to Quangos. Let’s not beat about the bush on this; it’s just
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