{"id":23663,"date":"2014-01-08T06:17:26","date_gmt":"2014-01-08T06:17:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=23663"},"modified":"2014-01-08T06:18:43","modified_gmt":"2014-01-08T06:18:43","slug":"simon-jenkins-is-an-immensely-irritating-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2014\/01\/08\/simon-jenkins-is-an-immensely-irritating-man\/","title":{"rendered":"Simon Jenkins is an immensely irritating man"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Simon Jenkins is an immensely irritating man.<\/p>\n<p>As I have said before on this blog, there are occasions when he writes quite profoundly in the Guardian and offers genuine insights that are of value. And there are \u00a0days, often it has to be said when he writes about economics about which he appears to have considerable prejudice and little practical knowledge, when what he has to say offers nothing akin to insight at all.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2014\/jan\/07\/george-osborne-talks-tough-acts-labour-chancellor\" target=\"_blank\">Today's article by him in the Guardian falls well and truly into the second category<\/a>. I think the flaws are self apparent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Simon Jenkins is an immensely irritating man. As I have said before on this blog, there are occasions when he writes quite profoundly in the<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2014\/01\/08\/simon-jenkins-is-an-immensely-irritating-man\/\"><em> Read the full article&#8230;<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23663","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23663","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23663"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23663\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}