There are some headlines you just never expect to see. So this in the Guardian this morning did, I admit, take me by surprise: What’s
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Good times and bad times, PWC wins either way
As the FT has noted this morning: When Lehman Brothers failed almost five years ago, it set off a global financial crisis — and a bonanza $3bn
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David Cameron – the tax havens’ friend
I get regular update emails on many subjects. One of them is tax havens. These were the first four items in an email last night
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Boom time is back: the lawyers are making money again
From the FT this morning: The prolonged downturn that has weighed on the fortunes of the UK’s biggest law firms is showing signs of abating
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Venn diagrams for our times: Tax havens
Venn diagrams for our times: Osbornomics 2013
Venn diagrams for our times: Royal Mail privatisation
Plan for well paid green jobs in every UK constituency
My Green New Deal colleague Colin Hines had the following blog on the TUC Touchstone blog yesterday, and I share it here because of the emphasis
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The true cost of austerity and inequality in Europe
This is the introduction to Oxfam’s new report on poverty caused by austerity in Europe: European austerity programmes have dismantled the mechanisms that reduce inequality
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