I have already this morning quoted extensively from one article in the Observer yesterday and now I will from another. This one was the argument
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I believe that the left is at an important moment in its history. What has happened in Falkirk is a mere side show: I will discuss what is more
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There has been some debate on a passport tax on the blog, so let me draw attention to the TUC’s proposal on this issue. I
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The UCATT trade union has published new work on the problem of false self employments, which I think is  a massive issue with regard to
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I felt like writing a piece on the problems with the UK’s unions this morning having spent the last two days in Brighton at their
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As the Guardian notes this morning of Vince Cable’s pretty weak announcement son a nascent industrial strategy: Joining up Britain’s future needs and opportunities with its present capabilities is
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I’m on the way to Brighton, one of my regular destinations these days. Today it is the TUC conference and I’m speaking twice; first at
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I mentioned an attack on the TUC’s tax avoidance spoof magazine ‘Kerching’ by Mayfair lawyer Miles Dean yesterday. He followed up his attack with an
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With tax avoidance by companies and the super-rich costing the public purse an estimated £25 billion a year, the TUC has today (Wednesday) published Kerching! – a
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