I have deleted a lot of comments today that may have got on if only they had looked like they were from remotely identifiable people.
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Maybe auditors should do what we’ve always expected of them
There’s a bizarre statement in Economia magazine (from the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales) today, which says: Auditors could develop a whole new
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All progress depends on the unreasonable person
George Monbiot has written his morning: It’s as clear and chilling a statement of intent as you’re likely to read. Scientists should be “the voice
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My aim in life is to make life pleasanter for this great majority
This is a fascinating quote from Beatrice Webb, she quoting Joseph Chamberlain: ‘My aim in life is to make life pleasanter for this great majority;
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Social justice demands engagement with political culture
In the US employees are being sent home because politicians so dislike the idea of the state providing people with healthcare that they’d rather close
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Google accused of sidestepping £150m in UK tax last year using clever accounting
As the Daily Mirror nots this morning: Google has been accused of using clever accounting to avoid paying around £150million of UK tax last year.
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To Norway, a note of thanks
As the FT notes this morning, Norway is set for the most rightwing administration in its postwar history with the centre-right Conservatives and populist Progress
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Why won’t Labour say it ran a budget surplus and ask when the Tories last did?
Osborne has said he will run a government surplus is re-elected. If he does it will be a fluke. There has been only seven years
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The Ebor Lectures: I’m in York to give mine, entitled ‘Jesus would cut the tax gap’ on 9 October
York St John University have just issued this press release: Richard Murphy, Director of Tax Research UK, will be the guest speaker at the next
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