I should have covered this one before now, from the Guardian: A wealthy former Tory party donor is to fund a new independent tax watchdog
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There’s a hint of another dimension of the Brexit strife to come in the FT this morning. Reporting that relationships between the Treasury and Bank
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The Guardian’s ‘Long read’ today features extracts from Richard Brook’s new book, Bean Counters: The Triumph of the Accountants and How They Broke Capitalism. I admit much
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Ian McWhirter in the Sunday Herald newspaper described me in this way yesterday: The Keynesian finance expert, Richard Murphy, of Tax Research – a prominent ally
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Following the publication by the Institute for Fiscal Studies of its fundamentally economically flawed analysis of the NHS’s finances this week debate continues on how
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A little dust has settled on the report of the Scottish Growth Commission. Some unionists are trying to say the growth numbers don’t stack: on
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THE Scottish Growth Commission report is intended to provoke discussion. I am not enamoured by its suggestions on either monetary or fiscal economic policy, but what
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It seems only appropriate, in view of my comments this morning on the Scottish Sustainable Growth Commission report, to mention that Common Weal has offered
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Over the last few years I and, more especially, my family have probably had more value from the NHS in care than I have paid
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