As the Guardian reports this morning: Rachel Reeves is planning to raise taxes, cut spending and get tough on benefits in October’s budget amid Treasury
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In this morning’s video I address the topic that, long ago, really got this blog going, which is tax havens. I note that I keep
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As the FT noted a couple of days ago: Minouche Shafik, the president of Columbia University in New York, has resigned following months of criticism
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I published this video this morning. In it, I argue that cryptocurrencies are nothing of that sort because almost none are ever used to facilitate
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The Tories face a dilemma. As the FT notes today, no one from business is interested in going to their conference because the Tories are
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I am breathing slowly. I can. Trouble did not erupt in up to one hundred places last night, as had been predicted. Anti-fascist protestors turned
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I have published this video this evening. In it, I argue that far-right politicians hate government, or so they say. For decades they tried to
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When trying to appraise any situation the question that has always to be asked is cui bono, or who benefits? That clearly coordinated rioting is
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Larry Elliott had an article in the Guardian yesterday that addressed themes familiar to readers of this blog. He said: There is nothing stopping the
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