I wrote quite a number of tweets yesterday whilst watching the various press conferences that closed the G7 summit. The most popular was this: I
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Just where Biden’s sympathies lie
I missed this a day or so ago, but if anyone has any doubt where Biden’s sympathies lie in this world this should really make
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Out of the political confusion of this week the new is waiting to be born
There is one very clear message from this week’s elections. It is that politically the UK is in a very confused state. This needs some
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Northern Ireland at 100
Northern Ireland was created on 3 May 1921. I am reluctant to use the word creation in the context of Northern Ireland right now, when
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Winning on the corporate tax rate argument is not done yet
The FT has noted this morning that: Europe’s low-tax nations have responded positively to the Biden administration’s plans for a radical reform of global corporate
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The heavy price of Johnson’s English nationalism
The world has, at last, noticed that not all is well in Northern Ireland. Loyalist rioting has gone on for six nights now. There is
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Is the UK over?
This is the front page of The Sunday Times this morning: And yet the Unionists want to deny all this, and the free choice that
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Northern Ireland’s food shortages and English indifference
There were news reports yesterday that Northern Ireland is facing food shortages because hauliers and their customers do not appreciate, or believe, that there is
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2020: what a year
I have already reviewed 2020 from the perspective of Tax Research UK, but the wider perspective is worthy of comment, if only as the groundwork
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