I apologise for moderation being very slow this weekend. I picked up one of my sons from university in Wales and took some time off.
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This comment by Marina Hyde in the Guardian resonated very strongly with me: I’m bored of being told things don’t matter because they didn’t “cut
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I posted this thread on Twitter this morning: The new independent adviser on ministers’ interests, Christopher (Lord) Geidt gave two rulings yesterday. Both suggest that
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I repost this from the Tax Justice Network blog: Welcome to the latest episode of the Tax Justice Network’s monthly podcast, the Taxcast. You can subscribe
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There was a time when Andy Haldane was the supposed wise head at the Bank of England. But that was long ago before he got
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I have been intrigued by three reports in the Guardian. The first is this: A court in the Hague has ordered Royal Dutch Shell to cut its
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I recently suggested to colleagues that I thought that we were looking at accounting in the wrong way. We were still seeing large companies (now
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As some will have noted I have been subject to some criticism in the comments section of this blog with regard to my proposed sustainable
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Lots of people think auditing is failing, but my suggestion is that such a simplistic comment does not really do justice to a complex issue. In
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