I noticed a new book announced by MIT Press yesterday. It is: As the blurb says: In this book, scholars from a range of disciplines
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Northern Ireland is not going to have a separate corporation tax rate
I welcome the news from Conor Murphy, who is Northern Ireland’s new finance minister, that he has no plans to cut the corporation tax rate
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Why aren’t journalists asking how the nationalisation of Northern Rail will be paid for?
As the FT has noted: Ministers are poised to renationalise the failed Northern rail franchise as the government pledges to invest £500m in reopening defunct
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Elsewhere: Do you recognise your own accounts?
As part of my now regular contributions to AccountingWEB I have written a post on the odd fact that the most publicity-hungry of companies seem
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The left needs to stop tilting at windmills and embrace them instead
Two articles have struck me this morning. One is in the Guardian, by regular commentator John Harris. The headline in this article says most of
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Green swan risks should change the way we see finance, forever
The Bank of International Settlements and Banque de France published an eBook for Davos this week: The BIS says of the book that: Climate change
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The will and wisdom to deliver international tax justice may be in short supply
Tax justice has always been a serious issue. It’s always been about development, poverty, the rule of law, equality (and inequality) in all its forms,
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Johnson’s failings
It is worth recording just how badly the Johnson government is already doing. Unless we do we conceded the narrative to them. First, a Johnson
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Everything you need to know about how hard trade will be outside the EU
My headline is, I think appropriate. Trade outside the EU is going to be nightmarishly difficult. For the UK the cost is currently incalculable. I
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