From the Guardian blog tonight (no, not the football one – although I have an eye on that as well): So Chris (Lord) Patten beat
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Bye, bye PFI?
From today’s Private Eye: Tax havens on their way one day. PFI the next? What will tomorrow bring? I’ve only been on both cases for fifteen
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Cayman and Bermuda haven’t a legal leg to stand on
This is interesting. The Guardian has reported that The Cayman Islands government said it was considering legal action in an attempt to stop the UK
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The UK’s tax havens: where from here?
Yesterday’s decision by the House of Commons to impose public registers of beneficial ownership on the British Overseas Territories, but not the Crown Dependencies, is massively
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The referendum was meant to cure Tory divisions – but now those divisions are set to pull the government down
As Politics Home reports this morning: The Telegraph reports that the 60 members of the arch-eurosceptic European Research Group – chaired by Jacob Rees-Mogg –
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Austerity has gone too far
As the FT reports this morning, austerity has gone too far. A survey they sponsored has revealed the following: Even Tory voters think cuts are
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Do pension funds really own only 3% of the FTSE 100, as the ONS suggest?
I was at a talk recently where a senior M&S executive claimed that 75% of shares are owned by pension funds. And then this week
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