I confess to having borrowed the following blog from Geoff Tily on the TUC’s Touchstone blog but it seems pretty important to me because it
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Beating European tax abuse the Oxfam way
Oxfam has published its precipitous for beating tax abuse in Europe. They say: Oxfam is calling upon the European institutions, especially the European Commission in
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Scotland is different
I have had less than two days in Scotland and can come to at least three very clear conclusions. The first is that Scotland is
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Maybe the Treasury should read this blog more often
I think the following Freedom of Information request relating to a blog I wrote in September 2010 interesting. I was unaware the Fo! request had
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Next Thursday in Bristol
How Green Infrastructure Quantitative Easing would work
I have been asked to provide an explanation of how Green Infrastructure Quantitative Easing would work as a result of the speech I made this
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Financing the Scottish economy: my talk this morning
I am in Crieff in Perthshire this morning to address the annual conference of COSLA – the Convention of Scottish Local Authorities. This is (give
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I am on Twitter
I am aware I have not blogged yet this morning. That’s because I arrived in Perthsire at midnight last night and have been in a
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Is Mr Carney playing double bluff?
The FT has reported that: Mark Carney says it would be “foolish” to cut interest rates or expand quantitative easing in response to falling oil
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