That’s the title of an article on the attempted nationalist takeover of the state in Hungary in the Guardian, published yesterday afternoon but which I did not
Read the full article…

Barclays has been a long term target of those of us concerned with tax justice, as you will find by searching them on this blog. Our aim has
Read the full article…

Paul Krugman posted this on his blog two days ago. I reproduce it as he clearly wants to give maximum coverage to the issue, as do I:
Read the full article…

HMRC issued their stuff with 20 rebuttals of the allegations made by the Parliamentary Accounts Committee before Christmas. I got sent a copy. I was fascinated by one comment: 17. HMRC have very
Read the full article…

The IFS has reported today, according to the Guardian, that: A couple with two children will be £1,250 a year worse off by 2015 as
Read the full article…

I made this video yesterday in one take and in haste. The quality is not great, being made too early in the morning and without
Read the full article…

I spent almost all day yesterday in meetings and so had little time to comment or blog. As such I did not refer to Liam Byrne’s announcement
Read the full article…

As the FT notes this morning: Large financial groups were ordered to shell out more than £160m in compensation to customers in 2011 as the
Read the full article…

The papers all seem to be reserving economic predictions for 2012 until today. Let me offer a few. This will be the year the world faces the biggest
Read the full article…