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VAT Articles

The budget that won’t go away

Who won? Who would have thought one month on that we’d still be debating the budget? Yet Ed’s questions today focused on the tax cut for millionaires paid for by millions of pensioners and families up and down the country and the potentially massive hit that charities...

The trickledown effect

Its top stars spend their days parading the latest designs while the assembled audience look on and take careful notes, modelling what will and won’t sell out in the real world. It is not only London Fashion Week that provokes cries of ‘who would ever actually wear...

Budgeting for failure

The government has fallen short on nearly all economic measures but its budget is unlikely to remedy this By Shamik Das —This month’s budget provides a good opportunity to reflect upon the present government’s economic record in the 22 months since the coalition came...

Beyond handbag economics

During the last Labour leadership election, it was Philip Collins, Tony Blair’s former chief speechwriter, who posed the question in The Times on 20 August 2010: what does it mean to be leftwing when there is ‘nothing left in the kitty’? Since 2010, there has not been...