For those not familiar with Godwin’s Law it says: “As an online discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches 1”
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Nottingham, tonight
As I have previously noted on the blog I am in Nottingham tonight making a speech at Jeremy Corbyn’s rally on those parts of his
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The ignoring and the laughing are over: the fight’s now on
A commentator on the blog wrote this morning: Richard, I think you need to recognise that a massive change has taken place over the last
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Nottingham, Thursday August 20
I am speaking at Jeremy Corbyn’s rally in the Albert Hall, Nottingham on Thursday evening. I am sure everyone is bored by now of me
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A breather
It has been a bit of a week. The consequence has been twofold. The first is that almost none of the work that I intended
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A holiday for the trolls
The volume of deliberate trolling on this site has considerably increased of late. I am amazed that so many have so much time to waste,
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New sources of funding for Tax Research UK
I have for the past five years been funded in three fundamental ways. The first has been by a core grant from the Joseph Rowntree
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Time I paid up to Danny Blanchflower
When Danny Blanchflower and I were both heading for 20,000 twitter followers (and he was a few hundred ahead of me) we made a little
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This week
As regular readers here are aware I tend to blog a fair amount. That may not happen this week. I am in Copenhagen tomorrow for
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