The UK’s headline inflation rate remained at 2.4% yesterday. City economists were expecting it to rise. It did not. As Geoff Tily at the TUC
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The 15 year ban for the auditor who signed BHS accounts is a move in the right direction
The Guardian has reported: The senior PricewaterhouseCoopers accountant who audited BHS’s accounts ahead of its sale for £1 just a year before the department store chain collapsed is
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Red Leicester – delivering radical politics with their music
I had a great time speaking at Leicester Secular Society last night with an audience much bigger than I think the organisers expected. Best of
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Labour is still failing to deliver a credible Brexit alternative
I caused upset to some on Twitter last night when I said So far it looks like today is the day Labour committed us to
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Publication of my submission to the Treasury Committee on tax avoidance and tax evasion
As I mentioned recently, I made submissions to the Treasury Committee of the House of Commons on tax avoidance and tax easvion and separately on
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Rebranding the economy
Some people have been musing on how to rebrand this blog in the comments section over the last day or so. They think it possible
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Achieving fairness in the tax system
These are the slides I used for a talk at De Montfort University this morning on achieving fairness in the tax system: A talk for
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Another day, another KPMG fine
Accountancy Age report this morning that: The Financial Reporting Council (FRC) has fined and reprimanded KPMG and partner William Smith over admitted misconduct relating to their audit of Quindell,
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Fraud is on the increase and the number of prosecutions has fallen by 31%
The FT has noted this morning that: A lack of resources for Britain’s police and prosecutors has led the number of white-collar crime prosecutions to
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