I always enjoy doing the Radio 2 budget commentary, but there’s an implicit challenge in it. As has been the case for some years now
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When Danny Blanchflower and I were both heading for 20,000 twitter followers (and he was a few hundred ahead of me) we made a little
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Deloitte UK has produced this video on respect and inclusion: I am all for respect and inclusion but in that case I have questions for
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The Budget report says the government will: introduc[e] a levy on large employers to fund 3 million new, high quality apprenticeships this Parliament Now I
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This, according to the Office for Budget Responsibility, is where a little over £5 billion of savings from tackling tax avoidance and evasion come from over
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I have long argued that George Osborne and the Conservatives have had the aim of making the UK a tax haven. Even the FT agrees
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As I have long explained, if the government is to run a surplus within the economy somebody else has to borrow. That’s basic double entry
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This was in the Huffington Post yesterday: Large parts of our country have been neglected for more decades, with no real industrial strategy. Our national
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After each budget I have a habit of looking at how the forecast changes in tax revenues for each major tax over the next few
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