I am of the opinion that of all the economic organisations we have available to us the state is not just potentially one of the
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First they ignore you
The People’s Assembly held a march and rally in London yesterday that achieved very little press coverage. This may it be by chance. It may
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Why a national insurance fund is no answer for Labour
Amongst the recommendations made by IPPR in its report published yesterday , on which I have already commented, and which has apparently been embraced by Labour
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28 tinkerings at the edge of relevance
Ed Miliband has, according to the Guardian, embraced IPPR’s new report, launched today and entitled ‘The Condition of Britain’. I was, therefore, duty bound to
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If Labour’s lost faith in the state what’s the point in Labour?
Ann Perkins has a very neat summary in the Guardian of IPPR’s report, out today, that Ed Miliband seems to be adopting as the basis
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The NHS, procurement and tax (again)
Heather Self of Pinsent Masons, solicitors, has sent me the linked note on tax and procurement that her firm has produced. This is in
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Lord Templeman
Fairly early on in my career as a tax campaigner I received a letter of encouragement from a source I had considered unlikely: the former
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It’s worrying when politicians oppose academic research
As the Guardian note this morning: The UK economy has doubled in size since the early 1980s — yet the number of those suffering below-minimum
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Can tax avoiders be stopped from getting NHS contracts?
I was asked yesterday whether it was possible for a local Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) (the supposedly GP controlled commissioning bodies within the NHS) to
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