EDITORIAL NOTE: Following comments posted and discussions I have had it is clear that a quote included in this post as I originally published it
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There is a flaw in the Biden tax plan that has to be addressed if it’s going to work, and that’s in the accounting
The tax justice movement is, unsurprisingly, keen on the Biden tax plan. What Biden is proposing is fairly straightforward. First, he is suggesting that a
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Another day, and some more corruption
I posted this in Twitter last night: If Hancock was an auditor this would probably end his career. So why doesn’t it as a cabinet
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Agnotology: the study of how ignorance and doubt is spread in society
Regular blog commentator PSR posted this comment on the blog yesterday, responding to my lament on falling standards in public life. I think it worth sharing
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When it comes to this government the default position now has to be to ask who within it is gaining from any decision made
The Guardian reports this morning that: Senior government officials have raised “urgent” concerns about the mass expansion of rapid coronavirus testing, estimating that as few
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If the government thinks accounting should be about the public interest it can’t say accounts are mainly for the use of of shareholders
I was, for almost a decade from about 2001, a contributing editor of AccountingWEB, which is a website focussed on addressing the professional needs of
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Defending real public country by country reporting in trialogue negotiations: Letter from 79 CSOs and trade unions
The Corporate Accountability Network, which I direct and which is taking up more and more of my working time, was one of the 79 signatories
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Money for nothing and my Tweets for free – the foreword
This is the new foreword that I have written for ‘Money for nothing and my Tweets for free’, which is published today: When I began
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The government has gifted the reason for its own downfall to its opponents. Now they should take advantage of it
As I mentioned yesterday, I put out a series of questions relating to corruption on Twitter over the last 24 hours. I retweeted the opening
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