taxation Articles

So there’s not much money to spend and further cuts still to make if the deficit is to be dealt with. And anyway the electorate aren’t all that keen on the government spending as much as they do. You can add to that the nagging fear of many that Labour will spend too...

The Queen's Speech is nearly upon us. It seems likely that the coalition government – having pushed through many of its ‘reforms’ in the first two years of the parliament – will present a relatively slimline legislative agenda (preferring to focus on deficit...

This time last year the chancellor said his budget would ‘put fuel in the tank of the British economy’. Since then the economy has stalled, unemployment has risen and he’s borrowing £150bn more than planned. So just what fuel has the chancellor been using? I asked at...

‘History is the lies of the victors,’ asserts Tony Webster, the main character of Julian Barnes’ Man Booker Prize-winning novel The Sense of an Ending. ‘Well,’ sighs his exasperated teacher, ‘as long as you remember that it is also the self-delusions of the defeated.’...