Long time commentator on this blog Ivan Horrocks has posted this comment: It’d be an interesting exercise in prediction if between the us (ie. you
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The Guardian has reported that: George Osborne should spread the pain of tough public spending cuts beyond the next two years, according to the OECD
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I wrote yesterday about the failure of the market in the NHS. Within hours the Guardian had reported: NHS regulators are to take control of
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I am amused (but only very slightly, and then sardonically) by the fact that Jeremy Hunt, the Health Secretary, is having to impose regulation on
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From the letters page of the Guardian this morning: In his analysis article (The icebergs are outnumbering the lifeboats, 1 June) Larry Elliott rejects the lifeboat
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The FT ran a report on Monday that said: Non-bank lenders have overtaken US banks to grab a record slice of government-backed mortgages, after regulatory
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The Independent Commission for the Reform of International Corporate Taxation (ICRICT) was initiated by a coalition of civil society and labour organisations including Action Aid, Alliance-Sud,
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The Electoral Reform Society (ERS) has just published its report on what it calls the most unfair election in the UK, ever. It has suggested
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As the Tax Justice Network notes today: A series of news stories came out this week about European Union proposals to tackle tax avoidance by
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