Did Ed Balls do well enough? Yes: he apologised, enough Yes, he stayed Keynesian thinking Yes, he talked of hope for ordinary people. The 5
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Left Foot Forward runs an annual poll for the Left Wing Thinker of the Year. I have been nominated this year by someone who, as
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Ed Balls is delivering his keynote economic speech today. I have no real idea what he will say but note the reports this morning that
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I wrote the following at the request of the Brighton Evening Argus for publication after the close of the UK Uncut trial in that city, in which I appeared as an expert
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My re-posting of Church Action on Poverty’s poster on inequality on Friday gave rise to comment. Seemingly talking about inequality and the need to end it offends some, and
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I thought it would be useful to highlight the incredibly small sample base of HMRC’s tax gap data for direct taxes, published this weak. As I have explained at length here,
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A week or so ago I wrote that if we faced another economic meltdown we should face reality and nationalise banking as a whole for the duration
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There was a recent discussion on this blog about the history of Low Value Consignment Relief – the VAT system that has been systematically abused
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I’ve finally had a chance to have a quick look at what Nick Clegg said yesterday. This jumped out, when he was Labour bashing (which
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