Owen Jones has written what he calls a a nine point Agenda for Hope in the Independent this morning on which he hopes those concerned
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I am a supporter of the work of campaign group ShareAction, much of whose attention is focussed on improved pension fund behaviour and reporting, an
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The 50p tax rate debate will take headlines for a day or two. I think that’s deliberate and even desired by Labour: the current leadership
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I note a letter in the Telegraph this morning which seems to go something like this: Dear Sir, We are concerned to see Ed Balls
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Two years ago my friend and occasional co-author Howard Reed wrote a response for Compass to Ed Balls acceptance of Coalition economic policies as the
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Ed Balls got his economics quite extraordinarily wrong today, for reasons that I have already explained (see previous post). But he got the restoration of
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Ed Balls looks like he’s going to do it again. For the third year running it looks like he is planning to deliver a disastrous
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The Guardian has reported that: Treasury insiders have accused Margaret Hodge, the high-profile chairman of the parliamentary public accounts committee, of deterring multinational companies from coming
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I wrote most of what follows on the need for massive accounting reform in the pensions industry to make this sector accountable to those who
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