I was fascinated to read this in the FT yesterday: The dispute is a pretty straightforward one. The EU wants AI-produced documents to reference their
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HMRC have marked their own homework on the tax gap again and have awarded themselves a nice mark, as usual
Yesterday was HMRC tax gap day – which is the day when they admit how much tax they did not collect, in their estimation. My standard joke
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Twitter reach
The last couple of days have seen ideas developed for this blog being published in Twitter thread format again. I admit that since the takeover
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Yesterday on Politics Live
This was clipped from Politics Live, yesterday: https://twitter.com/Haggis_UK/status/1671845946592837634?s=20 I am afraid that, as usual, I also forgot to control my body language in reaction to
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There is economic warfare in the air
I posted this thread on Twitter this morning: We learned a lot about the policy of the government and the Bank of England when it
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On air with the BBC today
Yesterday’s Twitter thread on inflation and the possibility that the Bank of England has now created an interest-price spiral was quite well read. This was
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Talking inflation, interest rates and other such stuff with Owen Jones
I talked about inflation, the Bank of England, interest rates and more with Owen Jones yesterday. Rather annoyingly, I can’t embed this, but you can
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Banks do not lend savers’ money
I was asked this question on Twitter this afternoon: This was my reply (over six tweets): Thanks for your question Jay. Your question is based
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It’s what George Osborne did to the NHS that lays bare the falsehoods in the claims he made yesterday
I thought this Tweet and the comment from Sir Michael Marmot a fascinating summary of yesterday’s evidence at the Covid inquiry, and especially the view
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