Someone I don’t know tweeted this late last week: I recommend all Liberals and NeoLibs follow @RichardJMurphy.You won’t agree with anything he says but his
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The Observer’s main editorial today is headlined: On tax, our politicians are just too cowardly I promise that as the author of The Courageous State who
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Nick Cohen has asked in the Observer ‘Why do we still honour free-market intellectuals?’, adding ‘It’s mystifying that the former chairman of Northern Rock is
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Absolutely brilliant: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tvqf1l19Zlo

The FT reports this morning that: At least £122bn of property in England and Wales is held through companies in offshore tax havens where ownership
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Ever since austerity programmes began  they have been justified by a number of rather bizarre economic arguments. The first of these was that government borrowing
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Following my blog on the language of economic debate yesterday Ivan Horrocks posted a comment that I thought worth sharing more widely: There was a
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Former Conservative MP Matthew Parris was interesting on the BBC's Moral Maze last night. He argued that we are not living in an era when
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Boris Johnson has said that London needs investment of £1.3 trillion between now and 2050 if it is to meet the demands that will be
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