I might have been alone last night in watching the Great British Bake Off whilst sketching out some ideas on the reasons why any country
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The police apologised to six members of UK Uncut yesterday for the use of excessive and inappropriate force during the course of a peaceful demonstration
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I was interested in this in an article by Own Jones this morning in the Guardian, promoting his new book, The Establishment*: “I have heard
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Martin Wolf had this to say in the FT this morning: Limited-liability, privately owned joint-stock companies are the core institutions of modern capitalism. These entities are
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I have already mentioned the political furore slowly developing over HMRC’s bogus claims of compliance tax yield this morning, but I also think it important
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The Independent has made a bit of a splash this morning on the fact that George Osborne has mislead parliament on the amount of tax
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August is not yet over, and I need a break. Not from blogging, of course. Asking me to do that is a bit like asking me
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I offered a quotation from one famous politician on being liked yesterday. It was negatively cast. So let’s have a positive alternative: “..You see there
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I was amused to note, in the context of many of the comments I’ve received on this blog and on twitter in the last twenty
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