The Covid inquiry goes on. I am under no illusion that Lee Cain and Dominic Cummings, who gave evidence yesterday, are objective witnesses. They might
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Is Cummings being trolled?
As The Guardian notes this morning: After four months of hearings, the official Covid inquiry reaches a week of hugely significant and potentially damning testimony,
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Arguments for relaxing bankers’ bonuses are bankrupt
As the Guardian has reported: The UK’s financial regulators have formally scrapped the banker bonus cap, removing one of the key reforms introduced by the
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The problem of taxing wealth will have to be tackled locally, not globally
The EU Tax Observatory has a new report on tax evasion out this morning. Or, to be precise, they have a new report on tax
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Taxing Wealth Report 2024: Reforming Companies House might raise £6 billion of tax a year
I have this morning published the next in my series of proposals that will make up the Taxing Wealth Report 2024. In this latest note, I
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The government has abandoned a new law that would have massively reduced the risk to savers from investing in UK companies – because the companies did not want to stop the abuse it would have prevented
The Tory government has backtracked on another of its promises today. I accept that for most people, the abandonment of a commitment to enhance corporate
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What happens when US democracy finally fails?
Once upon a time, the question with which I title this post would have seemed academic. Of course, there has always been a risk that
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Neoliberalism has a casual indifference to life
John Burn-Murdoch has another of his quite amazing statistical analyses in the FT this morning. In this one, he compares US life expectancy of various
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Ecclestone has been caught: now we need to use the methods that caught him within the UK domestic economy
As almost all of the media report, former Formula 1 impresario Bernie Ecclestone pleaded guilty to tax fraud yesterday. He won’t go to prison: the
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