I have the following article on the Guardian’s ‚ÄòComment is free’ section today under the heading “The non-dom rule is racist”: Zac Goldsmith’s embarrassment about his non-domiciled tax status is more important than it seems. It cannot be dismissed as simply being an effective blow landed by the Lib Dems in their campaign to retain
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Europe unites to deplore Swiss ban on minarets – Times Online . The Swiss and European establishment united today in deploring yesterday’s decision by Swiss voters to outlaw the construction of minarets but conservative leaders warned that the referendum showed genuine fear over Islam on the continent. Swiss officials, media and business leaders voiced shame
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If you want evidence that secrecy jurisdictions are used to harm the poor then an article in the Independent on Saturday provided it. Given its importance I have reproduced most of it, and hope they’ll forgive me: According to the World Bank it is the second poorest country on the globe – a place where
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The Guardian reports: Zac Goldsmith, the prominent environmental campaigner and Tory parliamentary candidate, was tonight forced to deny opposition claims that he had "dodged" paying taxes in Britain. As it notes: Goldsmith, who is standing in the key marginal seat of Richmond Park, west London, confirmed that he retained the non-domiciled tax status inherited from
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New AIB boss backed secret tax haven plan – Irish, Business – Independent.ie. Colm Doherty, the newly appointed managing director of AIB [formerly Allied Irish banks - now heavily supported by the Irish State], was one of the supporters of a controversial investment scheme to allow the bank to circumvent rules preventing AIB from buying
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Cameron’s policy on growth and the deficit is fundamentally flawed | Business | The Observer . I am tempted to resort to last year’s fashionable word “oxymoron” to describe Cameron’s position. The question is: is Cameron’s position on growth and the deficit consistent, or is it fundamentally flawed? In my view, it is the latter.
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Lord Ashcroft promotion threatens to create rift with Belize | Politics | The Observer . David Cameron was warned yesterday that Britain’s relations with a key Central American ally would be damaged if Lord Ashcroft was given a government post. In a stinging attack, Dean Barrow, the Belizean prime minister, depicted the billionaire Tory deputy
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From the Observer today: [Ruper Everett] suddenly announces that if the Conservatives get in, he’ll definitely leave the country. "I’m not going to stay here if David Cameron gets in." He rants about the Conservatives for a few minutes, and then, I say, but why do you dislike them so much? "Because they’re posh." But
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From Will Hutton today: At the launch of his new think-tank ResPublica, "red Tory" Phillip Blond, basking in David Cameron’s approval, said that one of the three cornerstones of a new conservatism was the moralised market. He fiercely criticised the tendency to size and monopoly in unregulated free markets in which the only criteria was
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