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Brown’s self-inflicted taxation wounds
As the UK prime minister reels from one crisis to another, he should reflect on a thread that runs through them – taxation, writes.John Willman
Sensible banking: the new big thing
‘Until we can sell on your loan to some sucker, we feel it prudent to scale back’: Robert Shrimsley has sight of the latest letter from Carefree Bank
Gordon listens as the Titanic sinks
Brown’s coping strategy seems doomed. Sue Cameron hears that his determination to start listening to the people – is based on some very old Conservative spin
All together: ‘Blade on the feather . . . ’
With the UK’s opposition Conservative party resurgent, perhaps in two years’ time a new wave of MPs will link arms and sing not ‘The Red Flag’ but ‘The Eton Boating Song’, writes Brian Groom
No drugs please, Boris is celebrating
Friday should be Johnson’s big night. A reward for good behaviour, having avoided talk of piccaninnies and cannibals. Emma Jacobs imagines the scene
The human faces of a food crisis
‘As a young mother leaves Waitrose empty-handed, it is all you can do to stop the tears.’ The food crisis has hit London’s middle class, writes Robert Shrimsley
Whitehall starts singing the blues
In less time than it takes to say ‘tax debacle’, a new tune is sounding through Whitehall. Civil servants are starting to talk Torywrites Sue Cameron
Edinburgh throws open a square
Andrew Bolger on the public opening of St Andrew Square – elegant and tasteful today, but with a reminder of a rather less salubrious past at its centre
Memoirs of a cabinet compulsive
The FT has seen a draft of Gordon Brown’s memoirs, which includes the revelation that he spent years addicted to binge taxing, writes Robert Shrimsley
Chancellor’s tax defeat is déjà vu
An unlikely crumb of comfort for Alistair Darling, the beleaguered chancellor, from Conservative former chancellor Ken Clarke, writes Sue Cameron
