As the Guardian notes: Flood defences, protecting nature and fighting pollution appear to be the casualties after Osborne inflicted the highest level of budget cuts
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According to the Guardian: The security and intelligence agencies – MI5, MI6, and GCHQ – will benefit from a 3.4% increase in their combined annual
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According to the Guardian: HM Revenue and Customs’s resource budget will be cut by 5%, but extra resources will be provided to tackle tax evasion.
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Osborne is going to explain how he will find £11.5 billion of cuts today. He will pretend this will solve the problems within the so-called
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Caroline Lucas has a first rate letter ion the Guardian today, which I’ll reproduce in full since I saw it before publication: News that Ed Miliband will accept the government’s
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The Guardian notes this morning that: Sainsbury’s chief executive, Justin King, has challenged senior business leaders and fellow retailers over the UK corporation tax furore by arguing that the issue
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The Guardian notes this morning that: A national police unit that uses undercover officers to spy on political groups is currently monitoring almost 9,000 people it has
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In the June 2013 Taxcast: ‘Coulds’ and ‘shoulds’ — but any real action? We analyse what the G8 summit did for tax justice and why
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As George Monbiot notes this morning: In various forms — Conservative, New Labour, the coalition — we have had the wrong government for 30 years. Across
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