This has been drawn to my attention and I think it worth sharing. It is a statement issued by Cllr Helen Evans who was head
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The Times wants charities to stop campaigning. Watch out the National Trust, RSPB and Cancer Research: that includes you
These are two headlines from a Times email this morning: The first is, admittedly, an anti-Momentum piece. The second includes this:Of course I am happy for
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Where is the ministerial backlash against Barclays because they have been charged with criminal offences?
News broke yesterday that Barclays Bank is to be charged with criminal offences. I stress, not the directors or some names individual, but the Bank
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When the wealthy find it pays them to support kleptocrats that’s exactly what they do
I would like a world where there was no need for development aid. To say so is not to come over all Daily Express /
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Am I right to defend Oxfam?
The following comment was posted on the blog overnight. It raises an issue in a fair way that needs addressing: Richard, Are you not defending
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Setting a new course for corporation tax
There appears to be a tax justice theme to this morning. The following is cross posted from the Tax Justice Network because of its significance:
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The Financial Secrecy Index
I haven’t previously shared this video on the Financial Secrecy Index which was launched a week or so again, but think it rather good and
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The Times is guilty of supporting abuse
I want to ask a simple question. It’s this. What would happen if The Times succeeds in its aim so clearly summarised by Rod Liddle
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The Times’ campaign against Oxfam is really about defending inequality
Rod Liddle, writing in the Sunday Times this morning, makes clear what that papers supposed expose of a story that Oxfam press released in 2011
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