The Institute for Fiscal Studies finding that more UK tax is being paid by a smaller group at the top of the income scale resulted
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Michael Gove has suggested that the EU is not willing to negotiate on Brexit. If I was in Brussels this is the letter I might
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John McDonnell appeared at the Edinburgh Fringe yesterday, and somewhat upset his party in Scotland. According to The National (Scotland’s only pro-independence paper): McDonnell told
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I was senior partner of a firm of accountants throughout my thirties. It helped that I started it, I admit. And I’m not claiming that
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It’s silly season. I reviewed the news this morning and nothing jumped out as requiring comment, in itself. At the same time the whole news
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The UK ten year gilt rate – the benchmark for the cost of government borrowing – reached a record low today of less than 0.5%.
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I was reading the Mirrlees Review of taxation, published by the Institute for Fiscal Studies in 2011 this morning (such things are my day job)
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A Guardian editorial today says, in the context of Boris Johnson’s No-Deal Brexit plans as an unelected prime minister heading a minority government: There is
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According to Politics Home: A majority of Scots are now in favour of independence and want a second referendum by 2021, according to a new
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