According to the Guardian this morning, reporting the call from South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley to remove the Confederate flag from the state building: Haley
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This week
As regular readers here are aware I tend to blog a fair amount. That may not happen this week. I am in Copenhagen tomorrow for
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Increase the minimum wage Mr Cameron, now
The FT notes this morning that: The prime minister will say Britain needs to move from a “low-wage, high-tax, high-welfare society to a higher-wage, lower-tax,
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Could UK and US squabbling on international tax reform just be an agreed ruse to kill the whole thing?
As the Guardian has reported: Britain has been attacked by a senior US official for undermining progress on a global clampdown on tax avoidance by
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The crisis in Greece is about democracy itself
I think this paragraph from Paul Mason, written yesterday, is poignant: If Syriza falls, and a pro-IMF technocratic government takes its place — which it
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There is no case for another London runway but there is for removing the tax subsidy from flying
From this mornings’s Observer: Any moment now, the Airports Commission will finally publish its recommendation for new runway capacity at either Heathrow or Gatwick. What
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Green QE in the European Parliament
This report was on the web site of Molly Scott Cato, Green MEP for the South West of England, this week: As G7 leaders agree
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The tragedy of Greek debt
I don’t know who created this image for the BBC on Greek debt but they hit the nail on the head: The Greek debt
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The UK is defending tax abuse, not promoting ‘tax competition’
The Guardian has reported that: Britain will reject plans announced in Brussels this week to combat industrial-scale tax avoidance by the world’s biggest multinationals, the
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