I could spend a lot of time and effort discussing Brexit today. I won’t. That’s because right now saying a great deal won’t change much.
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The last thing we need is a reduction in taxes on wealth
The All-Party Parliamentary Group on Inheritance and Intergenerational Fairness published a report on inheritance tax reform this week. The report gives rise to lots of
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Upstaging Farage
Boris Johnson’s prevailing philosophy of ‘whatever’ will end in tears
One of the deeply annoying phrases that has entered popular culture is ‘whatever’. It seems to suggest that generic indifference does not matter when quite
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It’s time we got over our fixation with central bankers
The FT has an editorial today that discusses whether or not the Bank if England should cut interest rates this week. In that editorial there
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HMRC has a lot of explaining to do on its latest tax ‘facts’
HM Revenue & Customs published a ‘factsheet’ on Monday on the supposed success of the ‘Diverted Profits Tax’ (DPT), introduced by George Osborne in 2015
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The lessons from an excess of consulting
As the FT has reported: Britain’s exit from the EU may be tumultuous but it has delivered a bonanza for consultants, with central government keen
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Is Flybe not a flyer?
The FT has reported that: Flybe mortgaged off the majority of its remaining assets to its shareholders last year, potentially complicating the UK government’s efforts
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Sainsbury’s plan for net zero-carbon ignores all the emissions that they enable – and that’s not good enough
As the Guardian has reported this morning: Sainsbury’s has pledged to spend £1bn to become a carbon-neutral business by 2040, 10 years ahead of the
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