Budgets are deeply political events, but Osborne grabbed his only chance of having a workable majority in this parliament to deliver a complex, large and
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George Osborne will talk Greece today. He’ll doubtless say that Greece makes the case for austerity. He’ll be wrong in doing so. The Greeks had
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All Chancellors of all parties do, without exception, sing their own praises. It goes with the job. George Osborne will do it today. But here’s
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Whilst markets and the media have obsessed about Greece China;s stock market, and with it the hopes of many middle class Chinese savers, have gone
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A new report by me analysing the result of EU bank’s country-by-country reporting under the terms of the Capital Requirements Directive has been published by the
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US Green Party Presidential Candidate Dr Jill Stein has backed the Green New Deal – which she looks to have lifted wholesale from the work of
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I gave a talk to Quakers in Bury StEdmunds last night, and thank them for their hospitality. In the question and answer session, which took
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Good work by Global Witness in asking a highly pertinent question. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ByszwLe1mD4&feature=youtu.be And good to see old friend Jason Sharman in action.

Astonishingly this comment comes from Janan Ganesh, George Osborne’s biographer, in the FT this morning: Conservatives can demand a relationship between desert and reward or
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