Ivan Horrocks of the Open University first drew my attention to the government’s plans to restrict ‘lobbying’ by UK academics in receipt of UK government
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The Public Accounts Committee is not sure HMRC have delivered on Google
The Public Accounts Committee have just published this statement of findings following their hearing with Google: It is not possible to judge whether a £130
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The austerity obsession is lunatic
Martin Wolf has said in the Financial Times this morning that: The austerity obsession, even when borrowing costs are so low, is lunatic I think he
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Mr Blair does not understand
It is reported today that Tony Blair does not understand the Corbyn and Sanders phenomenon. Of course he does not, for three reasons. First, Blair
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One world for tax?
The OECD announced yesterday that its tax deliberations will be open to all countries that embrace the Base Erosion and Profit Shifting project. I welcome
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Orlando and blogging in the next four days
I am travelling to Orlando today. No, I have not had a sudden mid-life urge to do Disney: I am speaking on The Joy of
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