Some days there is little or no news. On others it is as if it was planned that bad news should flood the media. The
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So, some in Greece rioted as its independent future was abandoned to Brussels. Is anyone surprised? And does anyone think it will end there?

This is ridiculous beyond madness (and comes from the Guardian this morning): The government is struggling to pay for new clean energy supplies which could
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I am grateful to Jolyon Maugham for pointing out what might best be called the bleedin’ obvious. He has reminded me, via his blog, of
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This letter was in the Guardian yesterday, from my Green New Deal colleague, Colin Hines: Larry Elliott is right to say that rather than crushing Greece’s
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I saw this in the FT this morning: BHP Billiton expects to book a $2bn impairment charge following a review of its US shale assets.
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I wrote yesterday of the end of my European dream, and that is a theme I will return to when the Joy of Tax is
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The Jersey Evening Post reported yesterday that: JERSEY’S fiscal ‘black hole’ has now mushroomed to £145m — around £1,438 for every local resident — according
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The EU is a shambles today. Across it people will be asking, as I have done, if the organisation of which they find themselves a
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