Sometimes one has to leave the keyboard behind and get a bit of inspiration. This is my eldest son, our dog and Brancaster beach, north
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That old socialist, Adam Smith
Having offered one quote from Adam Smith’s ‘Theory of Moral Sentiments’ of 1759 yesterday I thought another might be in order: When the happiness or
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Is that what the ICAEW meant?
I was amused by this in an email this morning: I know Google are tax experts, but the sort you want to hang out with?
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Forget the problems of monetary union – it’s tax union that matters with Scotland
Much of the discussion on Scottish independence has focused on the future of the pound. I am not going to decry the importance of money:
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Adam Smith got the corruption of class, wealth and power sussed
I do rather like this quote from the massively under-read ‘Theory of Moral Sentiments’ by Adam Smith (published 1759) quoted in a comment on this
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The hideousness of right wing economics
There was what many people might think a hideous article in the Financial Times over the weekend. It had the title ‘Raising the minimum wage
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There isn’t an army of low skilled workers in the UK. There are lots of underemployed skilled people
Larry Elliott has a piece on the UK’s productivity in the Guardian this morning and whilst Larry and I may both be members of the
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The shrinking UK is a Cowardly State
I was curious to note a couple of adjacent headlines in an email from the FT, received this morning. They looked like this: Three years
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Please not another increase in the personal allowance
I have been asked to explain why I oppose the Lib Dem policy of increasing the personal allowance to £12,500 a year from its current
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