I am at the launch of the Mirrlees review on the future of the UK tax system. Mirrlees’ fundamental assumption is that the tax system
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The World Bank has published its latest “Doing Business” report — an annual fiasco that might easily be interpreted as a celebration of the neoliberal
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A High Pay Commission has been launched. I am delighted to note that this is backed by the Joseph Rowntree Charitable Trust who also back
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People keep drawing this video to my attention. I have blogged it before, but it’s worth doing again:

I liked this letter in the Irish Times today, so I hope they’ll forgive me reproducing it in full: When the need for public money
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As the FT has noted, Robert Zoellick, president of the World Bank, has called for the re-establishment of the gold standard.Admittedly, this is not the
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George Irvin, professor emeritus at SOAS and a co-author of mine, has written a great article for the Guardian’s Comment is Free on the myths
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Iain Duncan Smith is to take away the jobseeker’s allowance of 1.4 million people if they refuse to undertake periods of compulsory full-time work in
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I’m writing on a day when I’m speaking at a TUC event on the need for tax justice. On the day when demonstrators will, I
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