It’s amazing how geography changes perspective. I am in Brussels this morning to attend the final conference of the EU funded Horizon 2020 academic research
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Reglobalisation in action: Changing norms in global tax governance
This post, by Professor Andrew Baker of Sheffield University and me, was on the Sheffield Political Economy Research Institute website yesterday: Matt Bishop and Tony
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Boris Johnson is not bored by Brexit: he just doesn’t want a deal
It is possible to be bored with Brexit. I get why people are. But I did not expect the prime minister to be so bored
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Why the Withdrawal Bill is bad law
There is one phrase that appears time and again in the European Union (Withdrawal Agreement) Bill 2019. It is this: A Minister of the Crown
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It’s time for Jersey to stop arguing about transparency and to get on and deliver it
The Jersey Evening Post published an interview with Andrew Mitchell MP yesterday. In it he made clear that he is sure the UK parliament can
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The psychopathic argument against corporate responsibility
A biographer of Milton Friedman called Jennifer Burns was in the FT yesterday saying: Corporate social responsibility is back – and that’s bad news for
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Too much haste is rarely good for decision making
I am not really the person to ask about the perils of seeking to do things in haste. I spend a great deal of my
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Resolving the crisis of Brexit begins at the seaside
This is why we have Brexit. As the Guardian reports this morning: Seaside towns and cities dominate the list of areas with the highest numbers
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Mervyn King gets it all wrong again because he hasn’t heard of the Green New Deal
Larry Elliott has written two articles in the Guardian on Mervyn King’s speech at the IMF / World Bank meetings this weekend. For those who don’t
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