One of the most surprising features of Brexit has been the absence of business comment. Seeking to rival Labour in their policy indifference to the
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Make the financial advisers culpable for tax abuse
The Guardian highlights the financial plight of many retired footballers this morning, saying: One accountancy professional with detailed knowledge of many players’ financial problems told
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Brexit choices
I had reason to be awake in the night (even as teenagers offspring can get ill) and so I began doodling a mindmap on the
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Too good not to share
For England things can only get worse
If you want to know why Brexit happened read the press release from the UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights I have just republished. That
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The UN Rapporteur’s statement on human rights in the UK should make you angry, or wonder where your empathy has gone
I thought about summarising the United Nations High Commissioners Office for Human Rights Special Rapporteur’s report on the UK, issued yesterday. But then I read
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When corporation tax abuse is still so strong alternatives are needed
Martin Sandbu made an interesting comment in the FT yesterday on corporation taxation. He came out strongly in favour of international reform to remove the
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Who, exactly, advises the Department of Business on accounting standards, on whose behalf, and why?
I much like three written questions posed in the House of Lords yesterday: I am not wishing to suggest Baroness Bowles smells a rat, or
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The time for civil society campaigning on accounting standards has arrived
The FT has reported this morning that: A group of the world’s biggest investors, which controls more than $30tn, has called on companies to be
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