By and large I enjoy blogging. I rather strongly suspect I would not have done it for the last 14 years if I did not.
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The UK’s new VAT system on imports has not the slightest chance of working – and keeps honest traders out of the country
The Byline Times is amongst many media organisations reporting one of the most crass consequences of Brexit, so far. As they note (and the whole
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The tax profession is being disingenuous about the risks of tax abuse after Brexit when the UK is being set up to be a new tax haven
I noted very recently that the UK’s commitments on tax abuse in its agreement with the EU were weak, and then noted that minutes after
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The world is awash with money, but none of its owners want to assume any risk such is the poverty in the thinking of modern capitalists
The FT has two articles today that suggest that the penny is dropping at there that cash flow is king, and that the pile of
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Sunak fails again
I remember budget day last 11 March. I listened to Sunak in the Radio 2 studio and went on air to tell Jeremy Vine that
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The paralysis of political decision making has to be addressed or the climate crisis will overwhelm us
One of the things that should be obvious about the Covid 19 crisis has been how relatively easy it has been to get data, and
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Why the banks are winning from coronavirus
Government-backed small business loans may have kept many small businesses going in the last year, but they’ve also been great news for the UK’s banks, who
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How did we get to this nadir?
So, we have lockdown again. I will ignore the staggering incompetence for now of saying schools must stay open on Sunday and insisting they shut
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2021 – The political forecast
Knowing that political forecasts are even more of a mug’s game than economic forecasts, and having already done the latter, let me risk reputation and
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