I am grateful to Carol Wilcox who wrote to her Conservative MEP to ask why he had voted against the resolution in the EU parliament
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Hope underpins the economics we need, but what should it be called?
I took part in a fascinating event organised by Philosopher’s Football on Saturday, chaired by my friend Andrew Simms. I confess it felt a bit
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Vodafone has a long way to go before it is doing country-by-country reporting
Vodafone wrote a letter to the Independent on Sunday on 13 December saying: Your article of 6 December (“Tiny new fines no threat for global
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None of the above, as yet
Spain has voted. And will have a coalition. People are searching for a new vision. The old, of left and right, all focussed on materialism
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Apple: rotten to its core
So Tim Cook, Apple’s CEO thinks that suggestions that Apple avoids tax are “total political crap” and claims that “Apple pays every tax dollar we owe.” That,
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The UK wealth gap is increasing
The FT reports this morning that: Between 2012 and 2014, the wealthiest 20 per cent of households had 117 times more assets than the poorest
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If the International Accounting Standards Board want peace and joy its about time they delivered it for everyone
I admit that of the Season’s Greetings I have received this has irritated me by far the most: The IFRS is the International Financial Reporting
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No ordinary recovery
A tweet by Danny Blanchflower drew my attention to a November article by the Washington DC correspondent of The Economist. The article carried the same
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There are ways to tackle corporate abuse, and many of them start with tax justice
The Observer editorial today addresses the issue of unethical behaviour my major companies. As they say: Looking back over the last seven years, one thing
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