I have mentioned I gave an Ebor lecture in York tonight and I have to say thanks to my hosts at York St John’s University;
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I’m in York tonight giving one of this year’s Ebor Lectures. The series is on the theme of the morality of austerity and takes the question
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As I’ve just noted, the FT is this morning singing the praises of the IMF increasing its UK growth forecast this morning. Martin Wolf is
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The FT seems to have lost the plot this morning, gleefully reporting: The International Monetary Fund has dropped its criticism of George Osborne’s austerity drive after
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According to Reuters: The practice of funnelling money to tax-free or low-tax countries such as Switzerland in order to avoid paying more punitive taxes at
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This is a brilliant new video from Inequality Briefing Sop much for social justice. So much for fairness. Data sources are linked here. And the
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Today (8 October 2013), civil society organisations from the UK OGP civil society network sent the following open letter to the Prime Minister calling on
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The Treasury Select Committee has asked what might be the best question yet about the government’s Help to Buy scheme, which is how would you
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I like this headline in the Guardian this morning: So it’s only privately owned franchises that work, is it? The evidence is in. And that’s
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