I have just been told I have been nominated for an award. This is the AccountingWEB Outstanding Contribution to Accounting Award, of which they say:
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HMRC’s running away from you
HMRC published it annual report yesterday. One of its claims, styled as an achievement, was that it now has only 170 offices compared with 539
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Osborne is tottering towards Green QE by the back door
I have good reason to support green quantitative easing since, as far as I can find, Colin Hines and I were the first people to use
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Bad news day
Some days there is little or no news. On others it is as if it was planned that bad news should flood the media. The
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Greece rioted
There is no shortage of money for renewable energy, but there is a denial of that truth
This is ridiculous beyond madness (and comes from the Guardian this morning): The government is struggling to pay for new clean energy supplies which could
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Some tax law is not worth the paper it is written on, even before it is passed.
I am grateful to Jolyon Maugham for pointing out what might best be called the bleedin’ obvious. He has reminded me, via his blog, of
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Jubilee QE for Greece
This letter was in the Guardian yesterday, from my Green New Deal colleague, Colin Hines: Larry Elliott is right to say that rather than crushing Greece’s
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Shale’s not setting the world alight
I saw this in the FT this morning: BHP Billiton expects to book a $2bn impairment charge following a review of its US shale assets.
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