Will Self has said: [S]itting MPs have managed to alienate the electorate all by themselves, by using taxpayers’ money to clean their moat/change their light
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Should this man be in charge of a public service broadcaster?
Luke Johnson wrote this in the FT yesterday: Business is tough now, but it could get much worse. The backlash against free market economics is
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MP’s expenses
I was in the environs of Westminster last evening. I had to leave the event I was at early: if I’d stayed after 9.45 I
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Anyone can set up a Panama corporation
Public Citizen in the USA did a little experiment. They asked an intern to set up a Panama corporation. And they filmed her doing it:
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Lessons not being learned
The government has published “UK international financial services — the future: A report from UK based financial services leaders to the Government” I guess this
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Think about the costs of regulation
Sir David Arculus, a former chairman of the Better Regulation Task Force and author of The Arculus Review: Enabling Enterprise, Encouraging Responsibility which will be
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Imaginative MP expenses are not that different from tax avoidance |
I see I’m not the only person to have noticed this: Nigel Stanley at the TUC has done so as well. As Nigel says: Almost
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Liberia: Capital Flight – Millions Out, Less in
allAfrica.com: Liberia: Capital Flight – Millions Out, Less in (Page 1 of 1). The reality of illicit financial flows documented in Liberia in 2008. And
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Africa’s missing billions
Africa’s missing billions | The Argument. For Africa, the era of banking secrecy is far from over argues Khadija Sharife writing in Foreign Policy. As
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