This might well be the best commentary I have read on Sunak’s announcement yesterday. To put this in context, Caroline Slocock was Thatcher’s private secretary.
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Tax havens exist to undermine democracy. They are a fundamental threat to our way of life.
Not long after I first began to work on tax haven reform more than twenty years ago I realised that the problem that these places
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What happens when the Prime Minister thinks that the electorate are extremists?
I posted this thread in Twitter last night: I then followed up with this: I am not sure that there is much to add barring
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The government’s deliberate policy of prejudicing the poorest in our society is imposing destitution on millions
A number of related themes are apparent in commentary on the economy this morning. One is poverty. As the Guardian notes: Millions of people –
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Words matter: denying Islamophobia enables it
Tory MPs have a lot to say about racism at present. According to them, no one in their party is racist. But then, they also
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We desperately need a Green New Deal and our power elites would rather ignore that fact
As the Guardian’s morning comment newsletter says in its introduction this morning: Houses in the UK are some of the oldest and least energy efficient
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Starmer is high in the pantheon of charlatans who have sought high office in this country
The true story of what was behind yesterday’s debacle in parliament is made clear in an article in The Guardian: The reality is that Starmer
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HMRC have deliberately taken tax collection out of our communities and the price that we are paying for that is very high
I am continuing to work on data from HM Revenue & Customs on its accounts, the tax gap and other issues related to its management
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Why isn’t Labour interested in company fraud?
There was an article in the FT yesterday suggesting that the price of incorporating a company in the UK may be too low and that
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