When I was writing the White Paper on Scottish Taxation for Common Weal that was released yesterday, Robin McAlpine, that organisation’s director, asked me a range of
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‘A Scottish tax system: imagining the future’ : my White Paper for Common Weal
This article, or one very like it, appeared in The National newspaper in Scotland this morning: I have worked on the role of tax in
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Austerity Britain: rolling back the state until we got to foodbanks
You can’t put GERS right
This article, or something very like it, was in the Scottish Sunday Herald last weekend: When I was giving evidence to the Finance and Constitution
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May’s new pay deal misses the point: everyone needs to be covered
The Guardian has reported the latest stage in the ongoing attempt by Theresa May to increase UK corporate transparency on pay by just a smidgeon,
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This week
I am supposedly on holiday this week. I use the term loosely. It’s one of those weeks where there is a lot of stuff to
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Labour has bought time, and a bit more
It’s good that every now and again we have something to celebrate. If then I raise a glass to anything today it will be to
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Reading those you don’t agree with pays, sometimes
Merryn Somerset Webb of the FT and Money Week and I are not natural allies. She actually called me an extremist economist rather than name
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When new technology becomes old and there’s nothing to replace it
I have, for a long time, been telling audiences that there is no new technology coming along to drive our economy along. When doing so
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