I quote at length from the Guardian on a new report from the Institute for Fiscal Studies out today: Britain’s poorest families have suffered the most
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All political parties must commit to open government
The following letter is being sent to leaders of all the UK’s political parties and many other politicians. It was organised by the Open Government
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In the Guardian this morning
This letter is in the Guardian this morning: Larry Elliott is right to be sceptical about whether the trillion-euro dose of QE will solve Europe’s
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The wrong type of QE
The European Central Bank has launched its QE programme, which is planned to print €1.1 trillion (that’s €1,100,000,000,000) of money in the Eurozone over the
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Scotland needs to get its company law into good order
I gave evidence to the Scottish Affairs Committee yesterday on the importance of being able to track the ownership of Scottish land through offshore companies.
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Big tech fights back on tax by aligning with right wing fundamentalists in the US
It would seem that almost uniquely the Guardian has reported yesterday’s televised open such on the OECD’s Base Erosion and Profit Shifting process in Paris that
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Edgbaston 2 February
The image of Davos
In the world of Davos only investors matter. And PWC has their interests very close to its heart At cost to the rest of us,
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Why engage?
I ask the question in the title of this blog at least in part for practical reasons. As I mentioned early yesterday morning, I engaged
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