#1 accounting blogger in the UK

Posted on January 2 2013

Economia magazine is the official publication of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales. I've just realised that it published its summary of the top 50 blogs used by chartered accountants just before Christmas. And as they put it:

The list is dominated by journalists, with Newsnight's economics editor Paul Mason coming in at number seven.

Flying the flag for chartered accountants in the top ten is Richard Murphy, founder of the Tax Justice Network and an advisor to the TUC on taxation and economic issues. A sometime columnist for The Guardian and Forbes.com, he offers his followers forthright views on the profession.

I wonder what the prize might be. A column in Economia, maybe?

The full list is here. Good to see Stuart Jones in it too.

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6 Responses

Ivan Horrocks says:

January 2 2013 at 3:30 pm

‘…he offers his followers forthright views on the profession.’

Surely not 🙂

Good to see Ian Fraser not far behind you, too.
Chas says:

January 2 2013 at 8:50 pm

Lashings of ginger beer and a secret handshake?
- Richard Murphy says:
  
  January 3 2013 at 8:56 am
  
  I don’t like ginger beer
  
  But you can buy me a pint of Adnams
  
  As for secret handshakes – I don’t know any
Max says:

January 3 2013 at 7:57 pm

TJN’s list of Founders doesn’t include Richard, so how accurate is the rest of the article?

http://taxjustice.blogspot.ch/2012/11/happy-birthday-tax-justice-network.html
John Christensen says:

January 4 2013 at 9:36 am

Dear Max
In fact Richard was a key founder of Tax Justice Network amd was involved in the creation of the network back in 2002. Richard was not present at what is now known as the founder’s meeting, which took place in Florence, Italy, in November 2002, but he and I discussed the formation of the network before the meeting and Richard was very instrumental in getting the network up and running in the months between the founder’s meeting and the formal launch of TJN, which took place in March 2003. Richard chaired the network’s formal launch event at the House of Commons on 24th March 2003.
I cannot envisage how TJN would have succeeded to the extent it has without Richard’s formidable contribution from the outset.
I hope this clarifies the situation.
best wishes
John Christensen
- Richard Murphy says:
  
  January 4 2013 at 11:59 am
  
  Thanks John