A journalist just rang me asking what I would include in the Autumn Statement. I referred her to The Joy of Tax. The final chapter
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I thought this whole paragraph in the Guardian yesterday was fascinating. It was written by Paul Kelley of the Oxford’s Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences : It’s
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Some questions are easier than others. The reason why bond traders don’t like People’s Quantitative Easing is easy to explain: they can’t make money out of
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Zoe Williams wrote this in the Guardian yesterday: Poverty is not a naturally occurring germ or virus; it is anthropogenically created though wealth extraction. Any
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This from the Guardian this morning explains exactly why the left lost so heavily in the Canadian general election: The Liberals neatly outflanked the formerly
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According to the FT: Transport for London is to build 10,000 homes across the capital during the next decade as it turns to property development
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As the FT notes this morning: A handful of multinationals control close to 70 per cent of global private sector research and development, while government
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One quote of the day comes along, closely followed by another. This is from Ivan Horrocks on the blog yesterday: I’ve no doubt whatsoever that
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Sometimes someone writes a paragraph that cuts straight to the heart of an issue, like this one from blog commentator Matt Usselmann yesterday: Here we are,
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