There is a new page on this blog today.
You can find it from the main menu. That has got three lines on it, top right from what you are reading now.
The list has been based on the more than 500,000 likes on blog posts posted by you, the readers.
We prepared this in response to the request that we prepare a ‘best of' book of blog posts, but I then thought it was worth posting it in its own right as a highlighted reading list.
We're still thinking of doing a ‘best of' collection as a download, as we have been asked to do, and that will require a lot of judgement to be exercised.
However, if you would like to indicate your own top 10 (or so) from this list, please do. Give us the post number in the list, and the blog title, and we will definitely take note.
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A welcome innovation, but please note that the three lines disappear when the page is expanded too far…
I have wanted to find earlier articles but I often find the search function to be poor. Recently, I’ve taken to indexing articles in date order (07092024 etc, through probably 20240907 would be better) so that I can retrieve them more readily, but too many are destined to remain outside this system.
Your team might consider finding some way of improving retrieval…some of your articles are classics!
Even we know they are there, but do not know how to find them.
We have no mechanism we can think of to do so.
Looking at it ……….
The oldest posts in the list date back to 2023, however you started blogging in 2006 and looking at the very first few pages they attracted neither likes nor replies
However there must be some fundamental truths back there which have withstood the test of time so if there is anyone who can emulate Max Headroom (I read ALL the papers, I am up to 1955) and who can pull out the real gems please get on with it.
I might suggest this one from 2006 as an example
https://www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2006/06/08/truth-avoidance/
Posted on June 8 2006
The following is from Simon Hoggart’s Parliamentary sketch in the Guardian, 8 June
“It is extraordinary how Tony Blair can avoid answering the question. Any question. I am reminded of the difference between tax avoidance and tax evasion. One is legal, the other isn’t. Mr Blair is not a liar but he is heavily into truth avoidance. This, as the Hutton report reminds us, is permitted.”
I have to say that the same could be said for pronouncements from much of the finance industry.
I genuinely do not know how to do this…
Apart from asking people