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From the Editor: Thank you to our readers and supporters

Basit Mahmood
23 December, 2025 (5 days ago)

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Basit Mahmood
23 December, 2025 (5 days ago)

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Alec Baldwin, not Michael Douglas, will improve corporate ethics

Cormac Hollingsworth
2 March, 2012

Cormac Hollingsworth looks at the City’s idols; for all that Wall Street is known in the real world, Glengarry Glen Ross is the real star piece.

Ken fights to save EMA while Boris fights to save top-rate taxpayers

James Mills
1 March, 2012

James Mills writes about Ken Livingstone’s pledge to bring back EMA in London

Memo to 50p tax trashers, #2: The effective tax rate is hardly ever 58p

Alex Hern
1 March, 2012

Alex Hern further questions the letter to the Telegraph supporting the scrapping of the 50p tax rate.

If you’re online, you’re in America, as far as US cops are concerned

Alex Hern
1 March, 2012

Alex Hern reports on the uncomfortable fact that US law now seems to apply to everywhere online, no matter where you actually are

Memo to 50p tax trashers: Laffer Curve peaks at over 75 per cent

Alex Hern
1 March, 2012

Alex Hern defends the 50p tax rate against the economic know-nothings who would cut it to ‘boost revenue’ (their own)

The Bank of England is like a lifeguard who’s afraid of rubber rings

Cormac Hollingsworth
1 March, 2012

Cormac Hollingsworth asks what use the Bank of England is if it’s afraid of one of the key tools in its arsenal

The changing face of healthcare in Northern Ireland

1 March, 2012

Edwin Poots presents his plans for the NHS reforms in Northern Ireland.

Anti-Traveller attitudes continue to go unchallenged in Britain

29 February, 2012

Conn Mac Gabhann details the shocking normalcy of anti-traveller rhetoric

Transport poverty is hitting the headlines – it’s time for fair thinking on fuel

Eleanor Besley
29 February, 2012

Eleanor Besley argues that we can’t focus just on car drivers when it comes to transport policy – and that if we put all our effort on to fuel price, we risk subsidising the rich.

The final James Murdoch question: Was he incompetent or complicit at News International?

Daniel Elton
29 February, 2012

Not only has the extent of hacking and corrupt practices involving the police coming to light at NOTW , but the cover up. Was J. Murdoch incompetent or complicit?

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