This video was published by the International Budget Partnership yesterday, announcing the forthcoming launch of its new series on tax transparency, which I largely host:
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The US is taxing the world’s poorest — and is disguising it as regulation
The Financial Times reported this week that the US Treasury has proposed new rules that could make sending money home much harder and more expensive
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The diminished state of the UK
As The Guardian reported yesterday: The UK’s drastically diminished aid budget is the “new normal,” the development minister, Jenny Chapman, has said, as she claimed
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Sequestered Russian funds are not the answer to any question in themselves
I have, I admit, been struggling as to how to explain issues around the potential use of Russian sequestered central bank and oligarch funds that
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Chaos is not an adequate word to describe yesterday
What a day, yesterday was. Trump declared economic warfare on Mexico, Canada and China, imposing tariffs of 25 per cent in the first two cases.
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Starmer’s undue haste is hard to justify
As The National in Scotland has reported tonight: KEIR Starmer has given a ministerial position to a close ally in the unelected House of Lords.
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A rare indication of surviving conscience in the Labour Party
This post has been put on Twitter in the last couple of hours: I highlight these paragraphs: Why highlight this? Firstly, to show that at
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China must be laughing itself silly
I admit that the supposed ‘once in a lifetime’ decision taken by Keir Starmer to increase UK defence spending by something approximating to the square
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Another charlatan lines up to sell his soul
This was in the Guardian last night. David Lammy becomes the next so-called Labour minister to make a pact with the devil, all for the
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