I note Bono has stuck his our into tax debate again, saying, according to the Observer that Ireland’s tax policies have: brought our country the only
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You can’t run a tax system on the cheap
HMRC has sent out thousands of incorrect tax statements, and made refunds of tax that are wrong. Time and again I have said you cannot
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Real change, or a cry for help? The rise of UKIP
UKIP has won its first seat in the House of Commons. That, I admit, saddens me. Everything about UKIP is, as far as I can
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Murph Studies
From Twitter, this morning: Thanks Jolyon. But let me promise you: you ain’t seen nothing yet. There’s a big new project for next year to
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The Class Conference 2014: see you there?
Memo to the IMF: why do you find the glaringly obvious so hard to spot?
I hope the Guardian will forgive me for posting the following from their web iste this morning. My defence is that the issues raised are
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Economic truth is not to be found by burying one’s head in the sand
Chris Giles is an economist working for the FT who famously got Piketty wrong. But he got his commentary on the main political parties of
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Labour borrowed £371 billion in five years to 2010. The Coalition will borrow £572 billion by 2015
It’s been suggested that my comparisons of Labour and Coalition borrowings have been unfair either because I used different time periods (13 years and 5
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The neo-feudals are coming
It is a recurring sub-current of this blog that we are moving away from a democratic era towards a neo-feudal one where plutocratic rule subjects
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