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From the Covid stats, issued yesterday (albeit out of date in the second chart): The government is still pretending Covid is over.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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We need open corporate registries now
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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Johnson is now using the war in Ukraine to put off action on climate change
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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A political commitment to transparency has to be our reaction to this war. Our contribution to ‘never again’, if you like.
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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If the Economic Crimes Bill is to be meaningful it has to make UK professionals responsible for what they are doing
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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The minimum level of business disclosure that we need in the UK if we are to beat dirty money
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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