West Ham deserved to go down. Consumers do not deserve what comes next: a £2bn packaging levy that firms will pass on, shoppers will pay and ministers will find increasingly hard to justify.

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I could spend the next 500 words bemoaning the fact that West Ham have been relegated, and wallowing in a cesspit of self-pity. The fact is that we deserved to be. We got the third lowest number of points, and statistics don’t lie. There are all sorts of reasons for that, but I’ll leave all that to be discussed on my WestHamTillIDie blog.

As you know, I like to keep tabs on what is going on in our government and our politics, but reading the Sunday Times Business section this morning made me sit up with a jolt. Are you aware that the government is rolling out a new tax on – wait for it – packaging, called the........

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