As many readers of this blog will know, Open University academic Ivan Horrocks is a regular provider of thoughtful comment on many issues on this
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Ha-Joon Chang has a great article in the Guardian this morning in which he completely nails the anti-living wage lobby. As he puts it: More
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The Gagging Bill on the UK’s charity and NGO sector was ‘paused’ in the House of Lords on Monday to avoid an almost inevitable defeat
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The Tax Justice Network has published its new Financial Secrecy Index this morning. One of the issues on which it is surprisingly vague is just what
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I have already mentioned the Tax Justice Network’s new Financial Secrecy Index. I should add that whilst I pioneered this Index and directed its first iteration
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The Tax Justice Network’s 2013 Financial Secrecy Index exposes yawning gap between G20 rhetoric and reality. Issued today, this is their press release on the new FSI (this
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I was amused by this comment by David Lucas on the blog, offered I think, a little tongue in cheek but not wholly inappropriately: If
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I had a phone call with Centrica’s finance director yesterday, followed by a mail. This followed my suggestion in a blog yesterday that: And this
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Paul Mason has written an insightful piece for Channel 4 and the New Statesman in which he does two things. First he more than justifies
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