There is much debate about what will happen if we have a hung parliament on Friday morning. The FT forecasts 281 Conservative and 266 Labour
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The UK is changing rapidly, and irreversibly, and this election is not answering the questions that poses
Martin Wolf summarises his feelings about the election campaign rather well this morning in the FT: The time has surely come to shift the focus
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What’s the scorecard on Graham Aaranson’s review of tax avoidance and evasion?
The Tax Journal has an article that it suggests is an end of Parliament scorecard on the efforts of the last government in tackling tax
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Why country-by-country reporting must be available on public record
Many of country-by-country reporting’s civil society supporters have come together to argue why it is now a must have for public companies. Download the whole report
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The stakes are at their highest sometime next weekend
It seems that come what may we will have a hung parliament on Friday. The constitutional position in the event of a hung parliament seems
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Tax justice, Quakers and corporate responsibility
I have this article in The Friend, the Quaker magazine, this week. I am a member of the Quakers: Tax justice Richard Murphy corrects some
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The speech I’d have made on the economy if I was Ed Miliband
It has become commonplace to moan about the fact that Ed Miliband and Labour have not defended their record from 1997 to 2010 becomes too
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Tories and LibDems to write their own obituaries
According to the Guardian tonight: Britain [is] set to face weeks of political paralysis after election The article is subtitled: Rebel Tories could block new
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Osborne committed in 2007 to leave the same amount of debt in 2010 as Labour did
I’m not sure there’s much to add to this: Except to note that Osborne was committed to leaving exactly the same amount of borrowing in
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