The Guardian is amongst many reporting the following this morning: British households will need to pay an extra £2,000 a year in tax to help
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Jersey is going to lose on beneficial ownership: it really should have the sense to do so gracefully
As Channel Islands newspaper The Bailiwick Express reported yesterday: Jersey’s financial services sector is being thrust back into the international spotlight with the publication of new
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Doing something right
The Tories have launched a new think tank, called ‘Onwards’. They have featured in an interview in The New Statesman. My first reaction was to wonder
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EU law lets the UK renationalise its railways
The following article is by Nicole Badstuber who is a researcher in urban transport governance at the Centre for Transport Studies, UCL. It was published on The Conversation and I
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If only we had politicians who could talk about economic reality
Danny Finkelstein has an article in The Times this morning under the heading: Labour’s war on capitalism will end in tears It’s all trite nonsense about
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International Financial Reporting Standards are not fit for purpose in general-purpose financial statements: Carillion was the result
As the FT reports this morning: The UK government ignored advice to put Carillion on its highest risk rating before its collapse in January, following
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Leicester – June 12
The Financial Reporting Council is the problem in UK accounting
Financial journalist Stephen Bouvier published three tweets yesterday to coincide with Prof Prem Sikka’s review of the work of the Financial Reporting Council. What he showed
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Suppose we were to create new national economic goals
I have my first post on the new Progressive Economy Forum blog this morning. In it I argue for revision of our national economic goals, saying:
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