Cameron’s apologist, Philip Blond, says that the whole Big Society agenda is about the fact that the state and the private sector have failed and
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I have just taken part in a surreal discussion with Philip Blond on Radio 2. He argued for the mutualisation of public services. He never once said where the capital was
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As the FT notes: Hundreds of billions of pounds of additional debt will appear on the government’s books on Wednesday when the Treasury publishes accounts drawn
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I, like many in the tax justice arena, was very dubious when the OECD set up the Global Forum on Transparency and Exchange of Information for Tax
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I mentioned on Saturday that Ernst & Young had a role in the News International corruption debacle because of their role as auditors of the company. This has been challenged by a couple
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From the Guardian this morning: One of America’s biggest healthcare providers, McKesson, gave its chief executive, John Hammergren, a 190% pay rise last year to $150m. Welcome to
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