2015 June 21

Could UK and US squabbling on international tax reform just be an agreed ruse to kill the whole thing?

Posted on June 21 2015

As the Guardian has reported: Britain has been attacked by a senior US official for undermining progress on a global clampdown on tax avoidance by
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The crisis in Greece is about democracy itself

Posted on June 21 2015

I think this paragraph from Paul Mason, written yesterday, is poignant: If Syriza falls, and a pro-IMF technocratic government takes its place — which it
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There is no case for another London runway but there is for removing the tax subsidy from flying

Posted on June 21 2015

From this mornings’s Observer: Any moment now, the Airports Commission will finally publish its recommendation for new runway capacity at either Heathrow or Gatwick. What
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