I wrote the blog that follows in June 2016, just before the referendum. I have re-shared it before, but in the light of attempts by
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As the FT has noted this morning: Sports Direct has asked the UK government to clarify how it might act if the troubled retailer becomes
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In my book ‘The Joy of Tax’ I argued that tax was the single best instrument available to any government to shape the society for
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Mohsen Javdani, who is Associate Professor of Economics at the University of British Columbia, and Ha-Joon Chang is Professor of Economics at the University of Cambridge have
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The Guardian noted yesterday that: Britain’s biggest companies, investors and pension funds must come clean to investors on the financial risks they face due to
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As Anjum Klair at the TUC has noted this morning: Almost half of self-employed adults aged over 25 are earning less than the minimum wage,
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I am not going to say that it’s a fact of life that everything reverts to the mean. Partly that’s because that’s not true of
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Common space, the news website linked to the Common Weal think tank in Scotland, reported last Thursday that: FIRST MINISTER Nicola Sturgeon has tentatively revealed
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Charles Adams, who is a regular commentator here, an occasional blogger at Progressive Pulse and a professor of physics at Durham University posted this comment
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