I am genuinely quite shocked that the government has abolished the Child Poverty Unit. I suppose I should not be: they have already tried to
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I met Peter Dawe, who is standing as an independent to be Mayor of Cambridge and Peterborough next year, for a drink last night. Read
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Airbnb’s tax affairs are discussed in the Guardian this morning, with fairly extensive commentary by me on my concern that the UK is being used
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The Apple tax appeal begins today: Ireland is saying it does not want the €13 billion the EU says the company should owe and did
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According to the Guardian: John McDonnell is demanding that Philip Hammond finds more than £1bn from within the government’s emergency budget plan to rescue Britain’s
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A few weeks ago I wrote a blog suggesting that what I most wanted from the Autumn statement was an end to the tax subsidies
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I received an interesting mail after my blog on the process of change yesterday. It included this line: My view is that despair is a
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The new Bank of England Quarterly report contains the following chart (page 192): The BoE discussion focusses on interest rates, unsurprisingly. I note three things.
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The Guardian has an article with this heading today: Let me be clear, I am not criticising what Boots is doing. But let me also
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