In a rare glimmer of hope yesterday we heard news that Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe might, at long last, be released after a confinement that is largely
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As the FT has reported: Tens of thousands of loans were given to potential fraudsters applying to multiple banks under the government-backed Covid bounce back
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Tax Research UK was one of 127 signatories to this statement, issued yesterday: This statement, signed by 127 leading transparency, anti-corruption, journalist and open data
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The Times has reported this morning that: Boris Johnson believes the West should be given a “climate change pass” to help wean the EU off
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I have just posted this thread on Twitter: To pretend that the world is anything like that we lived in two or so weeks ago.
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The Economic Crime (Transparency and Enforcement) Bill 2022 will be debated by the Commons on Monday, with the aim that it passes in a day. The
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Yesterday afternoon I made the mistake of watching Kwan’s Kwarteng, the Business Secretary, announce in the House of Commons what he claimed to be the
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We have lived through a weekend where, I think to many people’s surprise, Kiev did not fall. Instead, Ukrainian resistance to the Russian invasion appears
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I post this article by John Warren, who is a regular commentator on his blog, with permission of John and the editor of Bella Caledonia,
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