The first sketch (about a minute in) on the latest edition of the BBC Radio 4 comedy programme The Now Show compares benefit fraudsters and
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It’s been another weekend of mad economic news from our government. We now low that some government departments are going to be asked to cut
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There’s an excellent article by Jill Segger under the above title in Ekklesia. I offer this sample and recommend the rest: During my adult life,
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Jersey has claimed in its discussion document on a new scheme for corporate taxation in the island that it has a “good neighbour” policy with
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Jersey is in a profound mess. Its finance industry is failing, with funds under management rapidly leaving the island and the profits of its finance
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Blogging does occasionally have the capacity to surprise. I wrote what I thought was a pretty routine blog the other day, It was called “Benefit
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The ConDem government has launched a new web site — called Your Freedom — that is dedicated, it says, to scrapping unnecessary laws. I think
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According to AccountingWEB: There are currently 52 UK based accountancy and bookkeeping companies posting growing losses and, despite the obvious freeze in the credit markets,
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My friend Pat Lucas in Jersey has been at it again, writing an excellent letter to the Jersey Evening Post today: WHEN I look at
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