Regular blog commentator PSR posted this comment on the blog yesterday, responding to my lament on falling standards in public life. I think it worth sharing
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When it comes to this government the default position now has to be to ask who within it is gaining from any decision made
The Guardian reports this morning that: Senior government officials have raised “urgent” concerns about the mass expansion of rapid coronavirus testing, estimating that as few
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The government has gifted the reason for its own downfall to its opponents. Now they should take advantage of it
As I mentioned yesterday, I put out a series of questions relating to corruption on Twitter over the last 24 hours. I retweeted the opening
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Corruption – seeking your opinion
I posted this Tweet this morning: Government corruption seems like a big deal to me. But I want to know how other people think. Would
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All tax competition is harmful
Back in 1998 the OECD, the Paris based organisation that seeks to set the rules for cooperation on world tax, issued a document with this
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Our descent into being a police state is extraordinarily rapid
If there is one thing that we now have to accept as certain that we would rather not do it is that we have a
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Standards in public life fall when the unethical run government, at cost to us all.
The revelation that a senior civil servant was working for Greensill whilst still at the Cabinet Office, to which Lex Greensill was an adviser, has
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The heavy price of Johnson’s English nationalism
The world has, at last, noticed that not all is well in Northern Ireland. Loyalist rioting has gone on for six nights now. There is
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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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