Prof Danny Blanchflower and I had a brief Twitter exchange last night on the subject of cancelling the planned national insurance increase, due in April,
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My article in The National yesterday was tweeted by them using this, slightly worrying, image: As I concluded: Once fraud is accepted as normal in
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Sometimes a poet, and their friends, has to say something in a way others can’t. This is from a poet whose work I have long
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As The Guardian notes this morning: Unemployed workers will be forced to take up a job in any sector or face swift financial sanctions under
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Having spent rather too much of the night in pain with an abscess under a tooth, for which my dentist prescribed an antibiotic yesterday that
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I watched this programme on BBC2 last night: For those with an hour to spare and the ability to withstand the frustration of watching it
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Further to my blog post yesterday, quoting Lord Prem Sikka, who I have worked with for twenty years on tax justice issues, I note this
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According to the Office for National Statistics release on the December 2021 government finances, published yesterday, this happened: That’s an extraordinary increase in interest payments
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Lord Agnew resigned yesterday suggesting in the process that government losses to fraud were at least £29 billion a year. I am afraid I have
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