And somehow two weeks passed from the time when I said I might not be moderating many comments. My apologies to those who have commented
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It has been one heck of a week. One successful parliamentary debate. I’ve met about 45 MPs. One report on VAT published. Country-by-country reporting has
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There’s a wonderful example of the blatant misinformation that the Right peddle on the Sovereign Society web site today. Bob Bauman writes: What a Load
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Blogging does occasionally have the capacity to surprise. I wrote what I thought was a pretty routine blog the other day, It was called “Benefit
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I note from the FT that there’s a big spy scandal out there. And to get in before my far right friends do — the
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I’m told others shared this budget experience: the web in London was mighty slow. Getting a signal on WiFi really hard. Can the budget have
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Can I remind commentators of the moderation rules of this site? Lots of pedantry and “ya boo” commentary from libertarians is still arriving in my
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This blog is suffering another bout of comments from the fringes the political right wing. These people, who call themselves libertarian but whose whole object
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I just noticed — this blog is four years old today. 5,162 posts 14,231 comments A lot of friends made A lot of people annoyed
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