This morning there is news that the NHS is abandoning many of its patient commitments. We can apparently no longer afford them. Those awaiting non-essential
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I took part in a seminar organised by CityPERC (City Political Economy Research Centre) yesterday, the them of which was whether Brexit would reproduce Singapore
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You won’t read this very often on this blog, but I am going to give some credit to the Royal family this morning. I am
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I am rather bored by Brexit. Apart from the revelation of May’s crude and decidedly unsubtle negotiating position that must hav been chosen to alienate
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My attention was drawn yesterday to a blog by Graeme Roy of the Fraser of Allander Institute, which claims to be ‘Scotland’s leading independent economic
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I read an article yesterday that asked what Labour is for. Then I had a conversation in the evening where the question of whether anyone
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I have already highlighted and welcomed Oxfam’s new report on the tax dodging of UK banks using tax havens this morning. The work is based
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Oxfam has published a new report this morning on a survey it has done on the country-by-country reporting of Europe’s twenty biggest banks. I welcome
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