Who is going to get the best Christmas presents of all this year? According to the FT it’s already been the City, who have had:
Read the full article…

Writer on inequality Danny Dorling explains the meaning of Scroogeonomics and how little has changed since 1843 when Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol was published.
Read the full article…

There is a story doing the rounds today on the fact that UK banks are not paying tax. There is much more on the background
Read the full article…

Several weeks ago I wrote about the VAT abuse that is undoubtedly happening as a result of sales being made through the Amazon and eBay
Read the full article…

Owen Jones has written this in the Guardian this morning: If Labour has a New Year’s resolution, it should be to concentrate above all else
Read the full article…

The Guardian has reported today that: George Osborne’s plan to repair Britain’s public finances has received a fresh setback from official figures showing that the
Read the full article…

I am grateful to Carol Wilcox who wrote to her Conservative MEP to ask why he had voted against the resolution in the EU parliament
Read the full article…

I took part in a fascinating event organised by Philosopher’s Football on Saturday, chaired by my friend Andrew Simms. I confess it felt a bit
Read the full article…

Vodafone wrote a letter to the Independent on Sunday on 13 December saying: Your article of 6 December (“Tiny new fines no threat for global
Read the full article…