Howard Reed has a new report out for Unison on the living wage. In the interests of full disclosure I should mention Howard and I
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I try to be generous on the comments policy on this blog. But right now my generosity is being abused and the comments space is
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The Times has reported: [Justin King,] the head of Sainsbury’s, has lambasted fellow business leaders for failing to treat tax avoidance as a moral issue
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As the Guardian report this morning: Jersey’s former health minister has been sentenced to three months in prison after refusing to take down articles on
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George Monbiot has what I think to be an accurate and frightening price in the Guardian this morning under this headline: As he argues: The
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I was quite heavily featured on Channel 4’s Dispatches programme on the Big 6 energy companies last night. You can watch again here. Preparing a
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I’m inherently at heart pro-Europe. As a passport holder of two EU states, and as someone who appreciates the right to movement that it delivers,
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Yesterday I noted the report from Action Aid on Deloitte’s promotion of Mauritius as a ‘tax efficient’ base to invest in Africa because it reduced
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The world continues to face an economic crisis: this graph explains why: Taken (as is obvious) from the FT this morning, what it shows is
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