As I noted yesterday, The Times reported this week that:
David Cameron is facing embarrassment at a gathering of G8 leaders after Britain's biggest oil and mining companies refused to disclose fully the payments they make to resource-rich governments.
At a Whitehall meeting last Thursday, Government officials presented the companies, including BP, Shell, BG Group, BHP Billiton, Anglo American and Rio Tinto, with a draft compact on transparency.
As I've also noted this week, the Oxford Centre for Business Taxation receives or has received substantial business sponsorship, including from BP, Shell, BG Group, Anglo-American and Rio Tinto, but not BHP Billiton.
I now know Oxford think it's invidious to name names. So I won't. I'll just note the coincidence.
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I once attended a staff review meeting at which on one participant was highly critical of a specific individual but refused to name the individual on the grounds that “it would be invidious” to do so. Another participant then piped up with “but names are what we know people by”. Cue one very red face and a lot of laughter around the table.
Richard, don’t know if you’ve already come across this, but it just crossed my desk:
Corporate Pirates of the Caribbean (http://www.ips-dc.org/reports/corporate_pirates) a report from the Institute for Policy Studies.