Kenny Thomas is an old friend who writes a column called Middle Class Political Economist in the USA. He shared this post with me recently
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Sajid Javid’s populism is seeking to turn people against the NHS so that he can destroy it
The foundations of populist politics are easy to explain. First you say that the people are oppressed by an elite. Then you say that the
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Politics is not a game without consequences. It really is time that the Tories realised that before more have to die.
Dominic Cummings said this on Twitter yesterday: He added: In other words, the Tories knowingly lied about both Brexit and its consequences for Northern Ireland
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Why the tax justice movement needs to move its thinking on
As I noted in a post at the weekend, the OECD has now concluded its latest global corporation tax deal. It is imperfect. It was
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The real message from the Pandora Papers is that it is the fight to save democracy that is the big offshore issue now
The Pandora Papers have come, and will soon be gone. The important thing about them is to note what we have learned. In my opinion,
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Why are so many well known firms of accountants still operating in tax havens?
The Pandora Papers continue to draw attention to tax abuse. As I mentioned yesterday, the real need is to mention solutions though. We have known
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The government’s lax approach to company regulation is permitting fraud that it is doing nothing to stop
I welcome this editorial from the FT this morning: There is nothing much in the editorial that I have not said before. It is, however,
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The current chaos cannot continue. The worry is we don’t know when it will end, or what will come next
Nobody expected a shortage of bed linen in hotels to be a consequence of Brexit. But along with shortages of food, cars, blood testing bottles
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What can be done about tax havens?
In the first four videos in this series on tax havens I have explored how they work, what they abuse, and why that abuse should
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