The FT has noted: The spotlight directed on Thursday at UK Financial Investments went down badly in the Treasury. The attention sparked by the resignation of
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Economics: a faith based discipline
From Philip Stephens in the FT this morning: What circumstance now demands of politicians is the confidence to break free of the defunct, and debunked,
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Do you think she believes the Tories are family friendly now?
Five reasons to deliver full employment
In the executive summary of the report on delivering full employment that Howard Reed and I have written for the CLASS think tank we argue that there
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If we want to tackle the curse of idleness and deliver full employment then we need some radical thinking. That’s what Howard Reed and I have done
The CLASS think tank published a paper Howard Reed and I have written as part of their series on a 21st century Beveridge yesterday. As
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Three things Osborne has wrong – although there are more
Will Hutton has got this right tonight: Osborne must [now] abandon three false economic tenets. The public sector does not always crowd out the private
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Last night the Lords voted to privatise the NHS. And this is why
Last night the Lords approved the regulations that will effectively privatise the NHS, and this diagram from the latest New Economics Foundation / Tax Justice Network mythbuster shows why:
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You know that claim that the private sector’s always more efficient han the state? It is just a myth, of course
The latest New Economics Foundation / Tax Justice Network economic mythbuster is out. It’s featured in the Guardian and on the NEF website. It’s by my good
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Why aren’t Barclays and HSBC willing to say why they’re not paying a fair share of their taxes in the UK?
The Daily Mail has covered the new TJN report on unitary tax and how it would impact on HSBC and Barclays. And, in the process they’ve
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