Freeports: time to have your say on the government's plan to create onshore tax havens within the UK
Monday, February 10th, 2020The government announced its freeport consultation a few minutes ago. This is what the website says on this exercise: The government is working to boost
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Sinn Fein's support is a sign that the left is not dead
Monday, February 10th, 2020To those of a certain age (my age, for example) the idea that Sinn Fein might top a poll in Ireland is hard to believe.
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Is Whitehall right to be afraid of Scotland?
Monday, February 3rd, 2020Dominic Raab’s comments on Scotland on the Andrew Marr programme yesterday gave a real insight into his thinking. As Politics Home reported about c0mments Raab
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It's the unknown unknowns that will do for Johnson
Sunday, February 2nd, 2020Politics Home got me thinking this morning. It has a story on the £5 million the government is to spend on adverts attacking the idea
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Johnson’s true Brexit objectives were revealed by the video he released last night
Saturday, February 1st, 2020I watched Johnson’s tawdry little video about the UK leaving the EU this morning: I had not the slightest inclination to do so last night.
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Boris Johnson's prevailing philosophy of 'whatever' will end in tears
Thursday, January 30th, 2020One of the deeply annoying phrases that has entered popular culture is ‘whatever’. It seems to suggest that generic indifference does not matter when quite
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Is Flybe not a flyer?
Tuesday, January 28th, 2020The FT has reported that: Flybe mortgaged off the majority of its remaining assets to its shareholders last year, potentially complicating the UK government’s efforts
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Northern Ireland is not going to have a separate corporation tax rate
Tuesday, January 28th, 2020I welcome the news from Conor Murphy, who is Northern Ireland’s new finance minister, that he has no plans to cut the corporation tax rate
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Why aren’t journalists asking how the nationalisation of Northern Rail will be paid for?
Tuesday, January 28th, 2020As the FT has noted: Ministers are poised to renationalise the failed Northern rail franchise as the government pledges to invest £500m in reopening defunct
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