Rumour has it that Johnson’s announcement to the nation (England, in this case, let us not forget, for there are limits to his authority) today
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Money laundering is rampant and the government is refusing to put in place the measures to tackle it
As the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists reports this morning, the FinCEN Files that it has uncovered show trillions in tainted dollars flow freely through
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The pretence that we’re going to have a V shaped recovery should be consigned to the bin: now is the time for radical economic action to save jobs
Even the government is admitting that we are now facing a very difficult winter. It is very obvious that coronavirus has not been beaten. The
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The World Tax Summit
I gather that there are still several hundred free registrations available for this event. Previous experience suggests it is well worth taking part. I’ve done
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Why isn’t civil society interested in accountancy?
This video was the result of a discussion with a journalist who moaned to me that he could not get civil society to comment on
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The government’s incompetence was all the result of a choice – to balance the books
In June this year an epidemiologist told me that unless the government was very incompetent there should be no second wave of coronavirus. It is
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Almost irrelevant of age, sex, class or ethnicity – people want a fairer, greener, more community-oriented future
As Matthew Taylor has noted in the Guardian: The British public backs an ambitious transformation of the UK into a greener, fairer more equal society
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It’s time that auditors stopped gaming systems for their own advantage
The FT had a story yesterday with the headline: As the story noted: Deloitte has been ordered to pay a record fine of £15m plus
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Has the time to replace inheritance tax arrived?
Inheritance tax is supposedly one of thE most hated taxes in the UK, even though only a tiny proportion of estates pay it. I offer
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