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Updated: 12th May 2014. Three Take That pop stars have been fingered as participants in a ‘tax-efficient’ offshore schemes depriving the treasury of a slice of their large earnings.
The country is frozen and without economic growth despite the efforts of the porky controller and his chief engineer in the signal box.
Updated: 7th August 2014. The country has achieved an estimated return to growth in Gross Domestic Product ie. that the amount of economic wealth produced by the end of July 2014 exceeded that of January 2008 (the point at which the recession/depression is widely acknowledged to have started to appear in official statistics). The FT has a report here (registration may be required).
Updated: 12th February 2015: A simple wonderful picture caption from The Western Daily Press newspaper. Splendid expression on the Chancellor’s face.
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Extracted from Tobias Grubbe for 7th January 1713
A look back at some of my work from the year of 2012
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To all – and what a wonder year it was for Bradley Wiggins, the first British winner of the insanely difficult Tour de France.
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The Opinions of Tobias Grubbe for 10th December 1712 is published at this window. His patron Journalisted from the media Standards Trust where you may read all about them.
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The Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne is to make his long awaited Autumn Statement this afternoon. It is unlikely to be happy news for anyone – but it also seems there will be no change in course regardless of the consequences.
The drawing of George lashed to the mast is extracted from The Opinions of Tobias Grubbe.
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This afternoon the PM is reading the final Leveson report into the Culture, Practice and Ethics of the Press. Truly a tough gig for the Lord Justice but not half as hard as the public dilemmas that now face the PM and the government.
