It has been one heck of a week. One successful parliamentary debate. I’ve met about 45 MPs. One report on VAT published. Country-by-country reporting has
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Great news from the USA. A provision in the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, passed in the Senate yesterday, will require energy
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The FT reports: The Securities and Exchange Commission has announced a $550m settlement of its civil fraud case against Goldman Sachs in a move that
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I launched Plan B for Jersey a couple of weeks ago. Now I have my first official response, from Colin Powell, the  Adviser on International
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I was at a Smith Institute debate this morning, focusing on the budget. Several insights flowed from the debate, which was chaired by my Green
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There’s a wonderful example of the blatant misinformation that the Right peddle on the Sovereign Society web site today. Bob Bauman writes: What a Load
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Perhaps the most surprising attendee at the PCS drop in session I’ve just blogged was John Redwood MP. If you read the report of the
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I was at a PCS “drop in” briefing session on the tax gap at the House of Commons this afternoon. A fascinating cross section of
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Clifford Singer at The Other Taxpayer’s Alliance has done a great job tearing apart the government’s new Spending Challenge website. As he notes the libertarians
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