I have been continually bemused by the fact that GERS – Government Expenditure and Revenue Scotland – and its equivalent data for Wales and Northern
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There will be a long term prize for those admitting Brexit is not viable but Labour don’t want to claim it
It’s still silly season and news is sparse but in many ways that makes it easier to spot trends. Even over recent days if the
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The Scottish economy and necessary reforms
My thoughts on the Scottish economy, recorded in June: There’s one personal aside to this: one commentator said it looked like I needed to lay
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My evidence to the Scottish Parliament on GERS
This is my evidence in the quality of GERS – Government Expenditure and Revenue Scotland – presented to the Finance Committee of the Scottish Parliament
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GERS 2017: why it remains irrelevant to Scottish decision making
I have been asked for my comments on GERS 2017 – the Government Expenditure and Revenue Scotland statement, of which the latest version was published
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In July 2015 George Osborne made some heroic assumptions on debt and all of them were wrong
David Graeber has an article in the New Statesman this week on the build up of personal debt in the economy. In it he notes:
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HMRC’s offshore paper tigers
The FT has an article today on the requirement that tax advisers write by the end of this month to all their clients who they believe
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QE: a tale of bankers bickering about the deckchairs when the economy’s sinking around them
An exchange of tweets created economic headlines yesterday. This is it: Let’s put this in context: Rupert Harrison was George Osborne’s Chief of Staff for
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NHS spending data: necessary spend per person is falling and demand cannot be met as a result
There has been some discussion on the blog, on Twitter and elsewhere since Saturday’s debate at the Royal Society of Medicine on NHS England budgets
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