I recorded the Common Weal podcast with Craig Dalzell this evening. You can find it here if you want 45 minutes of lively discussion on
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These charts are in the Office for Budget Responsibility forecasts that support the budget: Interesting that bank rate is going up by much less than
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For those of an economic persuasion, the Office for Budget Responsibility provides a single table in its Budget documentation that summarises the assumptions that they
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There is one chart, above all others, in those produced by the Office for Budget Responsibility that really reveals the assumptions that have been made
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I was asked yesterday by a friend who is an accountant what I thought about the problems in water companies. This was my reply: What
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This is going to be a weird Budget Day. After seven days of pre-Budget announcements from the Treasury Politico has summarised the announcements made: HMT
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The New Economics Foundation has issued a new report today: The title really undersells this. I rarely unambiguously say something needs reading: I do say that
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Politics always has the ability to surprise, but some things are constant. As everyone who has ever stood to be a councillor tells me, dog
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It seems to be little known that there is a thing called the National Insurance Fund within UK government accounts. This is what the accounts
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