As academics know, the REF, or Research Excellence Framework, is a big deal as far as universities go. Happening once every even years it appraises
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My friends at the Global Initiative for Fiscal Transparency have an online course available on the importance f fiscal transparency to development. I share it
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I am pleased to share this: Visit the website here for more details. This looks like a really valuable initiative with good people behind it,
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Regular readers will be aware that the cost of servicing the UK’s so-called debt has been a subject of discussion here, most especially as it
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The FT reported over the weekend that the price of copper had fallen below $7,000 a tonne and was expected  to go lower. In March
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Anyone who watched last night’s ITV Tory leadership debate (and please see my Twitter feed for commentary) will have despaired at the poverty of thinking
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The painkillers seemed to kick in this afternoon, and so I wrote a Twitter thread, largely inspired by the Tory leadership candidates: Tory leadership candidates
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Day 4 and I am no longer feverish or anything very much, except deeply fatigued. I take paracetamol and it gets better. As the dose
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For a day when I appeared to do nothing I did well on getting articles into the media. The  Mirror republished my Twitter thread on
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