I'm travelling back from speaking at the Worcester Literary Festival.<\/p>\n
It was a long way to go and the audience was\u00a0somewhat\u00a0smaller than the thousand or more I spoke to in Blackpool last week - but they were an exciting lot! When I saw that I was scheduled from 1pm to 3pm I\u00a0thought\u00a0there was some mistake - surely we weren't doing two hours.<\/p>\n
Actually I was wrong - they let me go at 3.30!<\/p>\n
I really enjoyed the chance to discuss a wide range of issues from the tax gap, tax havens,\u00a0country-by-country reporting, economics and all that's wrong with it, why the\u00a0government's\u00a0thinking on the deficit is so wrong, why the left has lost courage, Quakers and business and much, much more.<\/p>\n
I really enjoyed myself and the vast majority of the audience who stayed to the end semd to do so as well.<\/p>\n
Now for the tour.....<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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