As Polly Toynbee notes this morning: If Cameron and Osborne visited Stoke Citizens Advice bureau, they’d find people queueing round the block as the service
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We all have heroes. I don’t think it’s possible to live a good life and not have people we admire and who inspire us. That doesn’t mean
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In late May J P Morgan issued a chilling review of what they saw as the state of progress on tackling the Eurozone crisis. As they put
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Osborne’s investment programme is all about carbon production. Most especially he wants to build roads. And yet as the FT reports this morning: Insurers have issued a rare
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In March I wrote suggesting that the FTSE was seriously overvalued at over 6,000. Inevitably the cynics said I was wrong. The market went to
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The following press release was issued by UK Uncut this morning: Today, UK Uncut, the anti-cuts direct action network, has announced a national day of action
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I mentioned in my last blog the claim by the Treasury that £3.2 billion has been received from Switzerland – which is being much trumpeted in the
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There’s a fascinating article on the Tax Justice Network blog today, which says: There’s been a fair bit of news about a supposed £3.2 billion windfall for the
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I was asked to sign Compass’ letter in the Guardian today. I couldn’t because of the way it was worded when in draft (although it
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