I was pleased to note this report in the Guardian yesterday: The European parliament is pushing for UK overseas territories including the British Virgin Islands,
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I am on this week’s Alex Salmond Show, available here. There is a link to one part of the discussion in this tweet: https://twitter.com/AlexSalmondShow/status/1352435568085491712

I have long been an opponent of so-called freeports, which are the onshore version of tax havens that the Westminster government wants to introduce into
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In this episode of the Tax Justice Network’s monthly podcast, the Taxcast: This month Naomi Fowler speaks to activist and writer Ben Phillips about how past struggles for justice were
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  This morning brings a salutary reminder to not believe everything that the papers say. I note The National newspaper in Scotland reporting that: POLITICAL
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The FT has an article today which begins be saying: Chancellor Rishi Sunak has told Conservative MPs he wants to use his March Budget to
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George Osborne dropped an absolute clanger in The Evening Standard yesterday, when he wrote on Scottish independence. Having lamented that Northern Ireland’s departure from the
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As the FT reports this morning: The … React-1 study led by Imperial College London concluded that prevalence of the [Covid] virus was “very high
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The FT has reported this morning that HM Revenue & Customs are refusing to extend the tax return submission deadline this year. As a result
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