I spent my day around Westminster yesterday. One of the meetings I spoke at was staged by the All Party Parliamentary Group on Local Authority Pensions.
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I was talking to a Labour politician last night. He was quite confident of several things. The first was that ‘blue on blue’ action will
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The Corporate Europe Observatory has published a new report today showing how the Big Four are embedded in EU policy-making on tax avoidance, and concludes
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I was asked yesterday if I might like to consider writing another two year forecast, since I did reasonably well with the one I wrote
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This may be interesting to those with an interest in VAT fraud. I know this may be a niche interest, but do not doubt its
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I wrote this in June 2016, the week before the referendum. It was my forecast of what would happen if Leave won. Not much has
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I suggested lasr Thursday that there would be resignations and was quite surprised to find that by Saturday morning there were none. But I just
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Every now and again a comment turns up on the blog that I hang on to because I feel unable to answer it at the
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According to the Guardian: May’s principal aim is to finally get agreement on the knotty issue of customs, solving the problem of the Irish border.
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