It’s Davos week. Appropriate growth has to be on the agenda of all present. But so too does something else, and that’s tax evasion. Tax evasion
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HSBC’s ability to appear whenever allegations of tax evasion arise is becoming almost monotonously predictable. Today it’s in the Harry Redknapp case. Yes, it was
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The Guardian has confirmed a trend spotted at the weekend – that Tory support has surged in the last week and Labour’s has crashed. Have
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This is from Left Foot Forward, with permission: Mitt Romney’s week from Hell is about to get worse. On Saturday he was trounced by Newt Gingrich in
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Martin Wolf has a long and thoughtful article on capitalism’s woes in the FT today. I don’t agree with it all, but I do with
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For the second time this morning, I pick up a significant change in sentiment in a news story that suggests real change is afoot. First it was the NHS, now it
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The FT makes clear just how good a recession big business is having this morning by reporting: Dividend payments from listed UK companies rose by
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It’s not the substance of the following report in the FT on NHS reform that is interesting, it is the form of wording used: As
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I don’t always agree with Will Hutton, but in his column today in the Observer he said this: Great news. All three party leaders are
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