I was out, thinking, yesterday. I never have a problem coming up with ideas. My problem is having a surfeit of them (all the time;
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There was a great deal of discussion here yesterday about the government’s decision to reinstate the winter fuel allowance, with decidedly complicated tax arrangements attached
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We passed 100,000 YouTube subscribers in early January this year. Yesterday, the plaque to mark this arrived. It had taken that long, we were told,
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The wealthy say they are terrified of the national debt, but they aren’t really. It only exists because they don’t pay enough tax, and they’d
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Rachel Reeves posted this on Twitter this lunchtime: This means 70% of all pensioners are going to have the winter fuel allowance restored after not
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As The Guardian notes this morning: Yvette Cooper, the home secretary, is the only minister yet to agree a spending settlement with the chancellor, Rachel
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As the Financial Times notes in an email this morning: In Los Angeles, clashes continue between anti-deportation protesters and law enforcement after Donald Trump deployed
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As The Guardian notes this morning: Disability benefit cuts planned by the UK government will disproportionately impact the lives of people in Wales, campaigners have
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Many people on the UK’s left want a wealth tax. The trouble is that one of those would take years to deliver. Taxing income and
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