The FT is running a most amusing feature today: It’s amusing because of the hysteria that lies just below the surface within it. It’s amusing
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UK pension funds had a deficit of £76bn last year. Its time for radical action
The FT has reported this morning that: The pension deficit of FTSE 350 companies fell by a combined £8bn ($11bn) during 2017 thanks to rising
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PWC is closing offices, but not in tax havens
Accountancy Age features what might best be called a ‘puff piece’ for PWC this morning under the headline: PwC’s 6 areas of focus for private
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You needed a book on Trump to doubt his fitness to be President?
I was amused by this headline in the Guardian this morning: Do they really think there were people who needed a new book to create
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Beating McMafia
The new BBC series McMafia makes clear three things. First, that organised crime can still money launder, with the active connivance of the financial services
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Conservatives really are from another planet
The Guardian has reported on research led by Tim Bale, a professor of politics at Queen Mary, University of London, this morning. As they note,
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Winning the Tax Wars
I am co-author of the chapter on wealth taxation in this new book: The book came out of a conference at the World Bank in
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Dangerous times
Martin Wolf wrote this in the FT yesterday: First, political developments have fractured the west as an ideologically coherent entity. Close co-operation among the high-income
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The threat to the NHS
We have another NHS crisis. It will cost lives, unnecessarily. It will cause untold long term harm as staff give up, voluntarily or otherwise, under
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