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1 week ago | 
news.bloombergtax.com | Martin Ivens
As the prospect of US tariffs threatens the global economy, the UK needs to escape its low growth, low productivity trap. With the wind in his sails from better than expected growth figures in February, Keir Starmer needs to put his foot down on the accelerator of change. The alternative is not-quite solutions that fail to deliver the supply-side reforms Britain badly needs.
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1 week ago | 
news.bloombergtax.com | Martin Ivens
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1 week ago | 
news.bloomberglaw.com | Martin Ivens
As the prospect of US tariffs threatens the global economy, the UK needs to escape its low growth, low productivity trap. With the wind in his sails from better than expected growth figures in February, Keir Starmer needs to put his foot down on the accelerator of change. The alternative is not-quite solutions that fail to deliver the supply-side reforms Britain badly needs.
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1 week ago | 
bloomberg.com | Martin Ivens
Keir Starmer and Rachel Reeves should focus on boosting the domestic economy’s productive capacity.
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1 week ago | 
flipboard.com | Martin Ivens
Why Keir Starmer’s psychological profile is different from other prime ministers – and what it means for his dealings with Donald TrumpThe question “Who is Keir Starmer?” echoed across headlines before and after he took office in 2024. Despite leading the Labour party for years, his …
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2 weeks ago | 
the-tls.co.uk | Martin Ivens
Winner of the 2024 Niche Market Newspaper of the Year Award and proudly niche since 1902. In this week’s TLS“Translating Dante is impossible”, begins Harry Cochrane in his TLS review of two translations of The Divine Comedy. Do we not have the poet’s own arguments for the futility of the enterprise? “Translating Dante is impossible”, begins Harry Cochrane in his TLS review of two translations of The Divine Comedy. Do we not have the poet’s own arguments for the futility of the enterprise?
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2 weeks ago | 
bloomberg.com | Martin Ivens
The prime minister may find himself out of sync with voters if he doesn’t stand up to the president. Global leaders have chorused their disapproval at President Donald Trump’s swingeing tariffs on imports and are threatening to retaliate in kind, but so far the British Lion has refused to roar. UK Business Secretary Jonathan Reynolds speaks softly about a new trade deal with Washington that would remove the levies.
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3 weeks ago | 
the-tls.co.uk | Martin Ivens
Cover credit: A detail from "Untitled (i23-3383)" by Harold Cohen, 1993 | © Courtesy of Gazelli Art House and Harold Cohen TrustSome debates just run and run. Adam Smith, the father of modern economics, thought that the economic inefficiency of slavery acted as a drag anchor on growth. In the other corner, Karl Marx argued in Das Kapital that the Industrial Revolution and slavery were intertwined.
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3 weeks ago | 
news.bloomberglaw.com | Martin Ivens
No fewer than four eminent King’s Counsels have been hired to defend the government’s tax raid on private education in the High Court next week. The stakes are high. Levying so-called value-added tax on independent schools was one Labour’s few stand-out commitments in an otherwise threadbare election manifesto. The future of a ministerial star, Education Secretary Bridget Phillipson, also hangs in the balance.
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3 weeks ago | 
news.bloombergtax.com | Martin Ivens
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