As the FT reports this morning: Worries about tax avoidance have shot to the top of public concerns about business behaviour, replacing executive remuneration by a wide
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The politics of envy are alive in Boris Johnson
Boris Johnson made a speech last night that will, I suspect, come to define his career. As the Guardian put it: Boris Johnson has launched a
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Tax is for life, not just for Christmas
International Centre for Corporate Social Responsibility CHRISTMAS LECTURE 2013 Wednesday 11th December 6.00pm — 7.30pm followed by Reception Room B52, Nottingham University Business School, South
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Stock markets near their highest levels and private equity piled high with cash: there’s a crash coming
As the FT notes this morning: Private equity groups are holding more cash for acquisitions than they had at the height of the leveraged buyout boom,
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What will the post-independence rump of a nation be called?
This is a serious question. Does anyone know what the post-Scottish independence rump of England, Wales and Northern Ireland be called? Surely it’s not the
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Cameron’s promoting increased exploitation in Europe
The FT has a headline and byline this morning that read as follows: Free movement within Europe needs to be less free By David Cameron
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Venn diagrams for our times: Is Tony Blair a Catholic?
This is some Pope
Just one of many possible quotes from the Pope today: As long as the problems of the poor are not radically resolved by rejecting the
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The Overseas Territories really don’t like being called tax havens on Twitter
This is from my Twitter time line: It looks like the Overseas Territories and Bermuda and Anguilla in particular do not like being described as
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