As the FT has noted: The vast majority of Grant Thornton’s UK employees want to spend less than half of the working week in the
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Making Tax Work
A significant part of my work over the last year that has not previously featured on this blog is featured in the latest newsletter of
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UK companies are not taking climate change seriously
It probably comes as no surprise to anyone that the FT has reported this morning that UK companies are failing to take their climate change
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What will happen in July?
This new chart from The London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, via the Guardian, makes clear that the government’s own Covid advisers think another
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The Covid crisis is very far from over
I watched much of the PM’s press conference on Covid passports, or not, and mass testing, or not, yesterday. The uncertainty within that sentence is
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A global minimum corporation tax rate is good news, but the detail has to be right
Janet Yellen has, according to the FT, called for a global minimum corporation tax rate. I welcome the move. I actually wrote a paper suggesting
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Why does our the government want to facilitate fraud and corruption?
As the Guardian reported over the weekend: A multimillionaire MP who enjoys a Downton Abbey lifestyle funded by historical family links to the slave trade
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What price will the failure of financial capitalism impose upon us?
The Tory plan for compulsory re-education appears to be advancing: https://twitter.com/tomhunt1988/status/1377931192180338692?s=20 That there are people who think we can be educated into believing a flag
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Who is lending to the government?
The Guardian has a long-running series where a reader asks a question and comments are invited, with the best being published. This weekend the question
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