Stephen Timms has delivered a good speech this morning. He has said to an HMRC conference: I want to set out why I think these
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It’s a shocking fact that Nicholas Sarkozy, a right-wing French president, is shaming the UK and US with the braveness of his economic thinking. He
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Manx Herald Isle of Man – Letter to the Editor — KSF (IOM) DCS ‘cock-up’. Seems KPMG are turning the mess of the Isle of
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BBC – Panorama – Tax inquiry into Lloyds off-shore . More on tonight’s Panorama. Other publicly funded banks are also continuing to do business off-shore
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Money impedes democracy | Prem Sikka | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk . Prem Sikka on the need for reform to protect democracy: Two political
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CBI advises raising university fees to £5,000 a year to tackle funding crisis | Education | The Guardian . Students should be made to pay
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The Guardian includes the following story this morning: The tax authorities are investigating Lloyds Banking Group after evidence emerged that the bank, kept alive by
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My week in DC is not yet over: I have some meetings still to do, but my on-line week nearly is. I admit it’s too
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The FT notes: “Curious” and “largely cosmetic” were two of the opinions offered by analysts on Thursday as they sought to explain Barclays’ decision to
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