As the Telegraph (a paper I’m liking more and more now Sean O’Hare is working for it) has reported: The US pledged yesterday to participate in the Extractive
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I now have details of the 2011 tax gap estimates, based on the tax year 2009-10. The table looks like this: This is in itself
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This is welcome news from the Press Association: Any future cut to the corporation tax rate in Northern Ireland will have to wait for at
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As the Guardian reports this morning: More than a third of the subsidiaries owned by major energy and mining companies including Shell, BP and Glencore are based
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I have now read what Vince Cable had to say yesterday (I was in court when he spoke). Polly Toynbee has written well on this
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Vince Cable and I talked quite a bit at one time. Then he got into government and things changed and fault lines appeared. Well, so
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It seems worth reproducing the following exchange from Hansard this week in full: Jonathan Edwards: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what assessment he
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Is today crunch time? Nothing tried so far to tackle the Euro debt crisis has worked. Austerity is simply like signing an economic suicide note. Expecting repayment of much of
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I have a very strong feeling that George Osborne is ready made to be cast in a remake of this where Bank Control issues the
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