I have Dr Martin Smith of the School of Chemistry at the University of St. Andrews to thank for drawing my attention to this comment in
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It’s by choice that the NHS is in crisis. And it’s by choice that it can be got out of it
The Resolution Foundation has published a chart that reveals just how big the Tory assault on the NHS has been. As they said in an
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It’s time HMRC joined tax reformers in recognising the changes needed to tackle the tax gap
The very fact that videos like this can be and are made is some indication of the change in tax culture over the last decade.
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The household analogy
I felt it worth sharing more widely this comment made on the blog by Adam Sawyer yesterday. It resulted from the discussion on rebranding economics:
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Is rail privatisation dying?
The Guardian has published this graphic based on newly published data on rail travel: The evidence of a downturn in commuting appears very clear. Whilst
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Quantitative easing is new government created money
The Bank of England published its accounts to 28 February 2018 yesterday (I have no idea why it uses that date: does anyone know?) The cash
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HMRC’s failure to come to terms with the tax gap represents gross negligence on its part, and that of its political masters
The government was not meant to make any announcements yesterday so that nothing distracted from the Grenfell Tower anniversary. So HMRC published their latest tax gap
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HMRC’s latest poorly estimated data on the tax gap has just been published – and the number is the one that could have been predicted in advance
HMRC has just gone through the process of announcing that their estimate of the UK tax gap is, as it always has been ever since
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We should be celebrating the defeat of Pimlico Plumbers
As the Guardian and many others have noted: Employment rights of workers in the gig economy have been boosted after a heating engineer won his claim
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