Avaaz is running the following petition which they aim to present to Prime Minister David Cameron next week. Sign up here, and please, please pass the link
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Why the UK has most to fear from a collapse of the banking system
This graph has been used before, but it remains highly relevant. Anyone watching Newsnight last night would have seen Paul Mason saying the Euro crisis
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If regulation is to work ‘chums’ can’t regulate ‘chums’. Getting tough is necessary
I’ve already mentioned the derisory fine dished out to PWC that’s in the news this morning. Then I noticed this in the FT: The £1.4m ($2.2m) fine that
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The threat to democracy is very real and present right here in the UK
I was pleased to see this from Philip Stephens in the FT this morning: Hungary’s prime minister presents a reminder — should anyone on this
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PWC massively negligent and pay a fine of just £1,717 a partner
PWC have been found guilty of massive negligence by the Accountancy and Actuarial Discipline Board. They persistently failed to protect clients of J P Morgan from
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Cameron claims the government is tackling tax avoidance whilst Osborne is going out of his way to promote it
David Cameron claimed today, when speaking about tax avoidance, that: “With the large companies, that have the fancy corporate lawyers and the rest of it,
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The tax avoidance Cameron won’t tackle
I wrote a paper on tax havens for PCS last year. In it I explained the basis of most tax avoidance, which I said is
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If Clegg thinks a general anti-avoidance principle will close the tax gap, he has to think again
Nick Clegg has said this morning on Radio 4, and as now reported in the Guardian, that the Liberal Democrats intend to remain at the forefront of the
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Swiss bankers may not be honest?
The Guardian reports this morning that: Switzerland’s central bank was embroiled in an insider trading scandal after bank chief Philipp Hildebrand was accused of speculating
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