The Bermuda Royal Gazette (where else could have such a paper?) reports: Offshore financial centres (OFCs) are facing a "Doomsday scenario" as the world’s major
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Why utilities need to be in public ownership
I argued on Sunday that: The sheer folly of thinking that the Royal Mail could be privatised was always madness. It is a utility. These
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Country-by-country reporting: a summary
What has Obama done?
There’s mighty stink in the US corporate world this morning about Barack Obama’s attack on offshore. According to the FT: “It is the wrong idea,
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Defining the ability to pay
Madeleine Bunting wrote a powerful column in favour of aid this weekend. I want to see an end to aid: it should be replaced by
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Dutch bluff
The US publication The Hill has reported: The White House on Monday angered the Dutch Embassy by lumping the Netherlands in with a group of
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High pay does not equate to results
The FT has reported: Royal Dutch Shell is facing the risk of a shareholder rebellion over pay for the second successive year after two influential
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