A political commitment to transparency has to be our reaction to this war. Our contribution to ‘never again’, if you like.

Posted on March 6 2022

I have just posted this thread on Twitter: To pretend that the world is anything like that we lived in two or so weeks ago.
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The UK government is falling way short in its planning for climate change. War cannot be used as an excuse for not doing better. This too is an existential threat

Posted on March 4 2022

Two parliamentary reports this week tell the same story about the government’s preparedness for climate change. As the FT notes this morning: The UK will
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Has the link between the Tories and the far-right been made?

Posted on March 4 2022

This council by-election result came in overnight: I know all the issues about extrapolation, but what is fascinating is that the UKIP vote did not
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The UK can no longer afford hollowed out firms

Posted on March 4 2022

The FT noted earlier this week that: Directors must take corporate culture more seriously following recent company failures, according to the head of the UK
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If the Economic Crimes Bill is to be meaningful it has to make UK professionals responsible for what they are doing

Posted on March 3 2022

The Economic Crime (Transparency and Enforcement) Bill 2022 will be debated by the Commons on Monday, with the aim that it passes in a day. The
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Why Sue Gray’s report still matters

Posted on March 3 2022

Twitter can be quite unpredictable. A carefully crafted tweet can disappear without trace. One written in a moment, and sent out without literally a second
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How will you pay for it? Solving the problem of funding government spending

Posted on March 3 2022

I have almost no idea what to say about the atrocities being suffered in Ukraine today, so have to offer something else instead. That something
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It’s not weaponry that can save us from catastrophe now. But new stories might

Posted on March 2 2022

The conflict in Ukraine has left me musing on many things, one of which is how we understand things. The standard journalistic approach to any
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The minimum level of business disclosure that we need in the UK if we are to beat dirty money

Posted on March 1 2022

Yesterday afternoon I made the mistake of watching Kwan’s Kwarteng, the Business Secretary, announce in the House of Commons what he claimed to be the
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