Why do I write five blogs before breakfast? Because injustice doesn’t sleep. I’ve spent my life exposing how power and money rig the system. And
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Farage wants to stop the boats, unless, it seems, they’re megayachts
Farage says he’s for the people, but he’s part of the elite. Just like Trump, he promises to drain the swamp while swimming in it.
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Do tax havens still matter?
Tax havens – or secrecy jurisdictions – are an abomination on the global economic landscape that should have been consigned to history long ago. This
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What do you do with a savings glut?
A savings glut creates global economic instability, and that’s precisely the problem the world’s got right now. The question is, what are we going to
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The diminished state of the UK
As The Guardian reported yesterday: The UK’s drastically diminished aid budget is the “new normal,” the development minister, Jenny Chapman, has said, as she claimed
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There is no pot of gold for the UK to tap in tax havens
Once upon a time, tax havens hid billions from the view of the world’s tax authorities. Then they caused massive disruption. But now, their opacity
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Trump comes out in favour of corruption
The corruption rollout that is now the characteristic of Trump’s presidency continues today. As the FT has reported: Donald Trump has ordered the Department of
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The toxicity of tax havens claims another victim
When I began this blog, if a Treasury minister had enjoyed the benefit of a flat owned by an offshore trust it is very unlikely
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The tax justice movement really does need to get its demands right
As the Guardian reported yesterday: The UK’s offshore financial centres must fall in behind plans to stop “dirty money” by publishing registers of corporate ownership,
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