The ability of Tory MPs to shock with their stupidity is, it seems without limit. Here Andrew Rosindell MP tells Newsnight that great care must
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The Tax Justice Network’s State of Tax Justice report for 2021 claims that tax haven abuse by wealthy people costs $171 billion a year. The actual figure is more likely to be $4 billion a year.
The Tax Justice Network has published its 2021 State of Tax Justice Report. Regular readers of this blog will know that I was underwhelmed by
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It is but a short step from The Telegraph’s article on children dying from Covid to something very sinister indeed.
I am far from alone in being horrified by the Telegraph article and headline, summarised in the Tweet: The reality is that 108 children have
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“Yes, the planet got destroyed, but for a beautiful moment in time we created a lot of value for shareholders”
I rather liked this response to a Tweet I posted last night: That is Sam West, the actor. Ane the cartoonist, Tom Toro, then tweeted
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How corrupt is the UK?
Boris Johnson claimed yesterday that the UK is not remotely corrupt. The guffaws of disbelief could be heard all around the press conference to which
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Greed is a threat to democracy
As many have reported, the US Federal Reserve has issued a warning on inflated asset prices overnight as US stock markets hit another new record
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The Tories have sewn the country up so that corruption might continue. No wonder we are in trouble.
We are living under a corrupt government. Since it would seem that every UK newspaper now thinks so, I think we can take that as
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What will bring Johnson down?
Boris Johnson took to joking recently that he might be prime minister for decades. His deliberate actions to undermine the democratic process suggest that this
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Sleaze is unacceptable but has become the modus operandi of this government.
This morning headline from the Guardian’s daily briefing of stories is pretty telling: However, Keir Starmer has followed a different line on this. He has
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