From The Times letters page today: There is not a lot to add to that.
Trust registration starts from 1 September: another barrier to tax transparency is falling
In 2005 John Christensen and I wrote this in Tax Us If You Can – the manifesto of the fledgling Tax Justice Network that went
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In case you thought Covid had gone away, it most definitely has not
Yesterday Sajid Javid, the Health Secretary, said we need not worry about Covid any more as we are ‘past its peak’. Dr Rachel Clarke has
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Rishi Sunak is the leader of the neoliberal pack when it comes to indifference towards the fate of ordinary people, whether in Ukraine or the UK
A theme emerged yesterday. It was of government and business indifference to real people. P&O, backed by Dubai – which is a key government ally
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The current state of Tory politics – where every single word is so empty, so pointless, so bereft of substance, nobody will remember any of it by the time of the next newscast – or care
The current state of Tory politics was ably summarised by John Warren in a comment on this blog yesterday: It is quite outrageous how badly
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Amongst the many lessons to learn from war with Russia is that UK libel law needs to change, and very soon
As Politico note this morning: Leading Britain journalists have revealed [in the Hiouyse of Commons] how London law firms intimidated journalists on behalf of mega-rich
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The government thinks Covid is all over. That’s the last thing it is.
From the Covid stats, issued yesterday (albeit out of date in the second chart): The government is still pretending Covid is over. That is anything
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I struggle to see the light of human empathy in the Tories.
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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The government and banks failed on Covid loans – but it was government ministers who have refused to deliver a decent company regulator and registrar for the UK who are most to blame – and who should be barred from office forever
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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