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The war on tax

Tax avoidance is an arms race. If we spend more on collection, corporations will spend more on avoidance, and we’ll waste money on an unwinnable war against better accountants.  That’s the argument....

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I don’t want to be the Nation of No

We can argue forever about immigration, economics or housing. I certainly don’t know the answers, and few people seem to agree about the data.  But to me, it comes down to this: as a nation, who do we...

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Jo Cox

It’s a sad day, and I’m trying to focus on that, and not be angry. Her poor kids. Of course, it’s too soon to judge Jo Cox’s killer. He may be mentally ill. So I’m not judging him. I’m perfectly happy...

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National Pride

In 1938, Neville Chamberlain, the British Prime Minister, said of the crisis brewing in Europe that it was a “quarrel in a far away country between people of whom we know nothing“ Nearly 80 years...

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What Brexit means

So we lost. I mean we all lost, not just Remain. If you don’t follow politics, let me put it in a football metaphor. This was England vs England in the World Cup final: and England still managed to...

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Behind Brexit lies a yearning for a past we destroyed.

On the whole, I prefer the future: it’s where I intend to spend the coming years. However, I do understand a perfectly natural sense of yearning nostalgia. I suspect that’s why most people voted for...

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The end is nigh

I cordially dislike political acronyms: they tend to be so broad as to be meaningless. All those Yuppies and Nimbies and Dinkies are usually nothing of the sort.  So it’s with some trepidation that I...

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Brexit cannot break the Iron Triangle

In all the chaos surrounding Brexit, I keep coming back to the same, simple fact: this is essentially a basic failure of project management. Experts are out of favour right now, but what I’m about to...

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Weep: it’s our next Prime Minister

Current candidates for Prime Minister are: 1 Boris Johnson Artfully dishevelled tribunal-magnet whose ego can be seen from Venus. Caught on tape conspiring to break journalist’s ribs, up in court for...

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The exploits of Boris Johnson

A list - probably soon to be added to - of the proven transgressions of the sexual predator, criminal, fraudster, liar, racist, sexist idiot we have as Prime Minister.

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FiveQuidFoodBank

Today is #WorldKindnessDay, and what an absolutely terrible thing it is. Today, on World Kindness Day, 590,000 Britons rely on Foodbanks, and I just spent £19 on a bottle of wine for the weekend. I...

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