I have not commented to date on Carillion’s failure. Partly that has been because of a lack of time. And partly it’s because I needed
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The FT has reported this morning that: The length of time it takes HM Revenue & Customs to investigate Britain’s largest businesses has stretched to
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The State of Nature web site has invited a wide range of opinion on the above question. The whole review is here. This is my
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Senator Bernie Sanders wrote this in the Guardian yesterday: Taking on the greed of Wall Street, the power of gigantic multinational corporations and the influence
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I have been under some personal time pressure over the last few days because of extended family health issues. One of the things I have
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I was asked in the last couple of days what a political economist is and why they are different from economists. This is a good
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The Public Accounts Committee has a new report on HMRC out this morning. It should have been entitled ‘Why did Ed Troup get a gong?’
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Phys.org has reported this morning that: A Luxembourg court on Thursday overturned–on human rights grounds–the verdict against a “LuxLeaks” whistleblower who was convicted of leaking
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Accountancy Age has the headline this morning that: HMRC forces Apple to pay £137m in back taxes And that is, indeed, what its accounts say.
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