Today is the 500th anniversary of Martin Luther supposedly posting his 95 Theses on the door of Wittenberg’s Castle Church. What precisely happened that day
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Gordon Brown needs to account appropriately for his legacy
Gordon Brown is being given a lot of attention because he is promoting a new autobiography. I revisited a piece I wrote about him when
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Why can’t we have honest elections?
So we now know that Trump’s election campaign manager is accused of pretty serious fraud. And we know that here are allegations of pretty serious
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The Ascendancy of Finance: City, University of London this Thursday
Oxfam: the heist no one is talking about
Oxfam launched this hard hitting campaign video this morning. Some may find it distressing. But the reality is that in developing countries lost tax revenues
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It’s taken a long time but the IFS has finally said something sensible on deficits
It appears to be a truth almost universally acknowledged that the Institute for Fiscal Studies can do no wrong when it comes to tax and
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Building new social housing is a no-brainer, which makes it odds-on not to happen
Andrew Rawnsley argues that if there is just one thing radical that Philip Hammond should do in the forthcoming budget then it is to let
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You cannot harm billionaires by raising interest rates, whatever the FT might say
It takes some pretty perverse logic to produce a headline like this: The FT does, however, manage it this morning. Merryn Somerset Webb, who is
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Increasing top income tax rates would increase economic growth
A new academic journal paper has something pretty interesting to add to the debate on the impact of higher than currently normal top rates of
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