I note that the Department for Education has defined Britishness. According to the Telegraph: The Department for Education named the “fundamental” values as democracy, rule
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This is the key chart in this morning’s employment statistics: Note that right hand end: there is a sharp downward trend in wage change, which
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This table is from the ONS stats on employment published this morning: Women’s pay across the UK fell on average last year. Mens did not.
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It looks like a Conservative backlash on anti-poverty campaigning in the UK has begun. It has been widely reported that Conservative MP Conor Burns has reported
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Activists from MedAct, Unite the Union, War on Want, and Change to Win are protesting today at the Boots flagship store on Oxford Street.  These
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I vividly recall conversations with John Christensen in the early days of the Tax Justice Network when we discussed the threats we were really up against
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There’s a fascinating article in the Guardian, published yesterday, asking if a large part of public debt is illegitimate because it was not incurred to
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Luca Paolini says in the FT this morning that the ‘corporate tax escape trick [is] set to backfire’. As he puts it: Households have borne brunt of
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This came from an article on Reuters yesterday by the indefatigable Tom Bergin: “For offshore profits, the UK can literally be a nil tax jurisdiction,
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