I wrote this blog post in January 2007, during a visit to Chile. My relationship with TI has changed since then, as they have developed
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I was meant to start yesterday on the Today programme, discussing whether or not HMRC should have an input into the honours system on a
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There is a theme to all the discussions of the tenth anniversary of Lehman that are now beginning. It is that we have not really
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When I went to university in Southampton in 1976 Whitbread became an important part of my life. They were the dominant local brewer. Whitbread has
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Simon Jenkins is a most irritating columnist, sometimes close to repugnant, and other times so sensible. And he writes well. Yesterday he was talking sense
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Watch here at about 42 minutes. Have Richard Curtis and Comic Relief not noticed tax justice campaigns? Extraordinary.

As the Guardian reported yesterday: Official figures showed that the UK’s net worth rose by £492bn between 2016 and 2017 to £10.2tn, with the lion’s share
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The problems within auditing in the UK (and I strongly suspect elsewhere) were highlighted yesterday when the fifth largest U.K. firm, Grant Thornton, was fined
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I will be one of hundreds of thousands of parents with a new sixth former this coming term. This morning we meet his new college to
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