It’s been revealed that the UK’s national accounts for 2009-10 include tax bad debt of £10.9 billion. I found this interesting. That’s because, as regular readers will
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The Telegraph reported yesterday that: People who receive cash-in-hand payments for goods and services are harming the economy, according to HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC)
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David Callahan has written a  blog under the above title on the Reuters web site. As he notes, the simple fact is that around the world deficits are largely
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One of the US readers of this blog, Kenneth Thomas, who writes the Middle Class Political Economist blog, wrote the following and I reproduce it with his permission as it
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I am delighted that readers of Left Foot Forward voted Caroline Lucas, the Green MP for Brighton Pavilion, their ‘progressive of the year’. As Left Foot Forward have
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One of the perpetual obsessions of the right wing of politics is law and order. It is they argue the fundamental duty of the state to defend
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Interesting commentary from Andreas Whittam Smith in the Independent this morning, who says: What are people angry about? The deepening recession? Yes. The high level of
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#OccupyNorwich have just issued the following press release: Occupy Norwich continue their series of discussions on the crisis at 1pm on Sunday at their camp on The Haymarket
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I’ve talked about economiuc crisis for a long time. I’ve got a book coming out about what I think we need to do about it next week
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