The Rudderless State
Tuesday, July 17th, 2018We have almost become used to politics being surreal. Yesterday it moved on from that. It become pure, but deeply dangerous farce instead. On Thursday
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Who is more powerful – states or corporations?
Friday, July 13th, 2018This article was originally published on The Conversation. Read the original article. I thought it worth sharing: Who is more powerful — states or corporations?
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It's all turning out as I forecast
Monday, July 9th, 2018I wrote this in June 2016, the week before the referendum. It was my forecast of what would happen if Leave won. Not much has
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Who will have quit the Cabinet by Monday?Â
Thursday, July 5th, 2018Tomorrow is the day when May has to decide. The can is surely running out of road. By Saturday morning she has to be able
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Where should the UK's internal land border be? Is it Carlisle and Berwick?
Thursday, July 5th, 2018I have very little confidence that the Cabinet will resolve its Brexit differences tomorrow. I, candidly, have very little confidence that it ever will. And, as
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In the surreal world of current politics ignoring the fact that Brexit was won by cheating is as close to absurd as it gets
Thursday, July 5th, 2018I’ve known Jolyon Maugham for a while. We worked together on tax policy before the 2015 general election. The debate on domicile that was one
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Ireland’s playing games in the last chance saloon of tax justice
Wednesday, July 4th, 2018The collective denial of tax abusers is one of the things that characterises their behaviour. It does not really matter which of the three parties
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Sterlingisation is how to destroy hope for an independent Scotland
Sunday, July 1st, 2018This article by me was published in The National in Scotland, yesterday: I FOUND Ivan McKee’s article (The people of an independent Scotland make the decision on
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The chaos to come
Sunday, July 1st, 2018Two days of enforced inactivity can be good for you, if chosen as a thing to do. I have spent the last two days being
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