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Friday, February 10th, 2023The search function within this blog is designed to provide as close as possible an answer to whatever is being asked of it. However, this
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Richard Murphy
Tuesday, July 4th, 2006Richard Murphy (66) was a practising chartered accountant for forty years and is now a political economist. He is Professor of Accounting at Sheffield University
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What if our politicians had a bias to the poor as the message of Christmas demands?
Saturday, December 23rd, 2023I have written several times already about Pat Lucas, the friend whose funeral I attended this week. I am doing so again. It’s a measure
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Jersey was once a place of refuge, and not the home of offshore finance
Thursday, December 21st, 2023John Christensen, with whom I worked for many years in the Tax Justice Network, and I had the chance to catch up during our visit
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The late Pat Lucas
Tuesday, December 19th, 2023I am heading to Jersey today. It will be my first flight for four years. I can’t avoid it: the boat service at this time
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Did a Tory Vice-Chair mean to oppose democracy, or did he just make a mistake?
Monday, May 8th, 2023As the Guardian has noted: The Conservative party’s deputy chair, Lee Anderson, has said that anti-monarchist campaigners should emigrate rather than use their right to
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Scotland needs an opposition
Thursday, October 20th, 2022Having written my article on my concerns about the SNP’s plan for using sterling after independence this morning I returned to Twitter to see what
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If the Big 4 can quit Russia they can quit Cayman, the BVI, Jersey, the Isle of Man, Bermuda and others too
Monday, March 7th, 2022The FT has reported this morning that: PwC and KPMG have severed ties with their businesses in Russia and Belarus, becoming the first Big Four
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Jersey fights back - but the reality is that their government has no plan for the end of its finance sector
Sunday, July 4th, 2021A week ago I published here the weekend essay I had written for the Jersey Evening Post, published by them on June 26. I made
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