Someone put it to me recently that writing several blogs before breakfast on most days of the week was not normal behaviour, but that’s what
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When I am asked by journalists why the tax justice movement has been successful, as I am, quite often, one of the reasons I offer
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Ed Balls will argue this morning that the Conservatives would, if re-elected, cut the top rate of income tax to 40% whilst increasing taxes on
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This is off topic, but if you have not seen this, please watch it. There are, no doubt, errors and misjudgements being made by both
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The IMF’s new report on the UK is totally contradictory in its prescriptions. The fact is conventional economics has no clue about how to deal
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Time and again I am asked to believe that bankers have changed their spots and that we live in a new era of ethical financial
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Polly Toynbee makes a call for tax to be centre stage in the next general election,and thereafter, in the Guardian today. Of itself this is
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Postscript to Friday:

Steve Richards argues in the Guardian this morning that Ed Miliband may be right, and that ideas could be the factor that determines the outcome
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