It seemed that I caused a bit of a stooshie in Scotland yesterday by suggesting that the SNP leadership were Tories who did not like
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What this post is about This post deals with a technical issue that is, however, of enormous significance to the UK and other economies. There
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This is a phenomenally powerful speech from the Prime Minister of Barbados at COP 26. She says the world could use quantitative easing to beat
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Martin Sandbu notes in the FT this morning that [I]t seems to me that a choice for independence would be motivated in part by a
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As the FT notes this morning: As Gillian Tett also noted in her article: [W]hile the corporate and government pledges emanating from the talks have
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I noted a letter I and others had sent to the OECD on taking tax justice forward yesterday. As is my usual practice I tweeted
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This morning headline from the Guardian’s daily briefing of stories is pretty telling: However, Keir Starmer has followed a different line on this. He has
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This was in the New Statesman this week: We keep banging on….  

From the Bank of England this lunchtime. After all the huff and puff about increasing rates they did not – leaving markets dashed in their
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