The Guardian did a blog on tax evasion yesterday. The data was drawn from my November 2011 work for the Tax Justice Network. As they reported:
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Osborne asks to be taken in hand
This is in an FT email this morning: Amazing isn’t it? We now have a Chancellor who recognises he is so incompetent he has to
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Venn diagrams for our times: Conservative conference
Fenland People’s Assembly – tomorrow, King’s Lynn
Just a quick mention to say I’m playing to pretty much a home crowd tomorrow when I’m speaking at the Fenland People’s Assembly in King’s
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Stephanie Flanders is leaving the BBC for her spiritual home
I was delighted to hear the news this afternoon that Stephanie Flanders is leaving the BBC for her natural spiritual home at JP Morgan. As
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Have yachts and have nots
I liked this from the Guardian this morning: So those bankers whose bonuses George Osborne is going to court to defend are doing just fine.
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Monopoly is the enemy of the people which is precisely why the N word needs to be on the agenda
There’s been a bit of a theme to this morning’s blogging. Energy companies are bullying Labour to defend their monopoly profits. Builders are saying they’ll
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We can’t pay for the disabled to have a room to live but we can give money hand over fist to BT
As the Guardian reports this morning: Plans to roll out superfast broadband in rural areas are in chaos because government mismanagement has given BT a near-monopoly in the market,
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Osborne is going to court to fight for bankers’ right to massive inequality
As the FT notes: Britain is taking legal action against an EU cap on bankers’ bonuses in an attempt to strike down the measure on the grounds
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