The Guardian noted yesterday that: Britain’s biggest companies, investors and pension funds must come clean to investors on the financial risks they face due to
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Bogus self employment is a recipe for abuse
As Anjum Klair at the TUC has noted this morning: Almost half of self-employed adults aged over 25 are earning less than the minimum wage,
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Reversion to the mean: what chance after Brexit?
I am not going to say that it’s a fact of life that everything reverts to the mean. Partly that’s because that’s not true of
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Scotland can have a job guarantee or the Fiscal Commission plan, but not both
Common space, the news website linked to the Common Weal think tank in Scotland, reported last Thursday that: FIRST MINISTER Nicola Sturgeon has tentatively revealed
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The increasing indebtedness of UK households
Charles Adams, who is a regular commentator here, an occasional blogger at Progressive Pulse and a professor of physics at Durham University posted this comment
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I hear rumour that at least one university may go bankrupt this summer
This time of the year is very stressful for 18-year-olds waiting for A level results, with the hope of getting the place of their choice
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Non-doms may not be going. They might just be paying tax
The Guardian reported yesterday that: The number of super-rich people who live in the UK but pay no tax on their offshore income has fallen
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Everything has changed
It’s a weird political era when the biggest battle in UK politics would appear to be between two men named Dominic. Stand aside Boris. You
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Boosterism debunked
This post by me was on The Conversation, a blog reserved exclusively for academics, today: It looks like Boris Johnson is opting for a novel
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