From the Guardian this morning comes this observation on the process that has lead to Cameron putting tax abuse at the heart of the G8 summit: There
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I offer this simply because I think it true and for no other reason. The report is from the Guardian: George Osborne's scheme to boost
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I note, with curiosity, the following report in the Guardian this morning: Britain’s shadow economy is now worth £150bn a year — but it is
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As the FT notes this morning: The wedge of land squeezed between the M56 and M62 in north-west England could be Britain’s new oil and
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As the FT has noted this morning: Whitehall needs to become more business-like to improve its less than rigorous financial management, one of the nation’s
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My friend and co-author Howard Reed has a thoughtful piece on the Open Democracy site on wealth taxes. In it he argues: Private households in
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It’s now commonplace to say Francois Hollande has got a great deal wrong in France, and to some extent that’s true. But not this one, from the
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Last month John nChristenen and Nick Shaxson published their new e-book called the Finance Curse. The thesis is about the harm suffered by states when
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I was amused by this in the Belfast Telegraph this morning: The Irish government is “sleepwalking” through destructive claims that the state is a tax haven for
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