The Elysee Palace have issued a press release that says (near enough): The President of the Republic received together this afternoon, at the Elysee Palace,
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Facebook’s UK corporation tax bill last year was less than it pays a single average worker
From the TJN blog (borrowed, with thanks, it’s been a busy morning) This is an extraordinary story, from the UK’s Daily Mail: The average salary package paid to each
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What is tax for? An answer in six tweets
What does Cameron want? More inequality, of course
I borrow this, shamelessly and with his permission, from Alex Andreou in the New Statesman: “I’m not here to defend privilege. I’m here to spread it”,
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The oil industry wants to maintain secrecy so it can maintain the culture of corruption
The American Petroleum Institute – representing all the major US oil companies – has launched a law suit against the SEC in the USA to block the
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The best economics on the web this morning is on the TUC’s blog
For those who want to know why the economy is in a mess, and how Osborne got it all wrong there are two outstanding articles
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In praise of flexible working
Straight from the Guardian editorial this morning, without much apology: Radicals have long understood the importance of the garden. Now the New Economics Foundation has got the
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Memo to the UK: the only way to win a race to the bottom is not to play
From the Tax Justice Network blog: From a speech by UK Prime Minister David Cameron: “Because the truth is this. We are in a global race today. And
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Whilst Cameron talks competition and sinking to the bottom the IMF demands cooperation
Cameron was talking about the UK sinking or swimming yesterday. And about competition. And about being alone in the world. It was an isolationists speech;
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