2018 January 19

Corporate UK is swinging into full self defence mode

Posted on January 19 2018

Corporate UK is swinging into full self defence mode in the wake of the Carillion collapse. These headlines comes from an FT email this morning:
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If Companies House can’t even scan documents what hope is there of it helping us hold UK plc to account?

Posted on January 19 2018

The accounts of Thames Water Utilities Limited for 2017 as filed with Companies House were sent to me yesterday. They were filed in June last
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The companies hit hard by Carillion don’t need bank loans: they need new capital backed by People’ QE

Posted on January 19 2018

Britain’s banks queued up to offer assistance to companies that will suffer difficulties as a result of the failure of Carillion yesterday. When I last
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Who says tax increases aren’t acceptable?

Posted on January 19 2018

Who says tax increases aren’t acceptable? This is what the Guardian reported during yesterday: The SNP has welcomed a YouGov poll in today’s Times (paywall) suggesting that
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University pensions

Posted on January 19 2018

I was one of about 1,000 academics to sign this letter to the Times Higher Ed on university pensions: We write as senior academics to
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