I admit that one of the difficulties of blogging regularly is working out what is worth talking about, and what just keeps the flow going.
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The UK’s leaders are united, but only in their indifference to what happens within it but outside England
As Politico reports in their daily morning email today: Following Northern Ireland’s biggest ever public sector strikes on Thursday, Secretary of State Chris Heaton-Harris issued
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UK banks are rubbish: of course they are undervalued
The FT noted last night that: Jeremy Hunt has called in Britain’s largest banks to discuss why they remain so poorly valued compared with global
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How to manage the supply of public goods
As I noted yesterday, it is not just the Post Office that is failing badly at present; HM Revenue & Customs is as well. As
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It’s not just the Post Office that needs reform: HM Revenue & Customs does as well
I have posted this thread on Twitter this morning: There is justifiable outrage right now about the fact that the Post Office has been able
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Why are HMRC understating the number of Tax Commissioners by 14%?
An, as yet, unpublished part of the Taxing Wealth Report is on the governance of HM Revenue & Customs, which I have long felt to
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The Post Office makes clear that modern capitalism is all about reward without responsibility
For obvious reasons, I had a quick look at the accounts for the Post Office this morning. This is the latest balance sheet: Let me
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How can the failure of English water companies be addressed?
The Guardian has an article addressing the above issue today in which they look at alternatives to private ownership if the U.K. water supply and
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The lessons to learn from Martin Luther King
This article to mark Martin Luther King Day in the USA, which is on 15 January, was written by an old friend of mine, Ben
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