The world really is full of crap. That’s my abbreviation for Completely Rubbish Approximations to the truth. Take this report I saw yesterday based on
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The UK government is paying lip service to tax justice
The Tax Justice Network reported yesterday that: Analysis of more than 600 US multinational corporations has revealed that 12 per cent failed to comply with
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Special places in hell
We now know that Donald Tusk thinks there is a special place reserved in hell for Brexiteers. I wholly understand his sentiment. And let’s assume
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Some money basics
Outsourcing has failed
The FT has just reported: Interserve, one of the biggest suppliers of government services, has confirmed that it has reached an outline agreement that hands
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Should Labour be promoting boom and bust?
I can well recall a guy I knew at university. Jock was a leading spokesperson for the gay movement in union debate at the time.
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The political economy of Labour’s fiscal rule
I could do a blow by blow account of the exchanges on Twitter between Jonathan Portes, Simon Wren-Lewis and me concerning Labour’s Fiscal rule last
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Labour’s fiscal rule is Osbornomics
The debate on Twitter between Simon Wren-Lewis, Jonathan Portes and me on Labour’s fiscal rule was resumed last night, and continued long after I’d dropped
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The troublemakers are bringing up the rear
For the umpteenth year (I think it goes back to about 2006, with maybe an off break on the way) I have appeared in this year’s
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