I am far from alone in being horrified by the Telegraph article and headline, summarised in the Tweet: The reality is that 108 children have
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“Yes, the planet got destroyed, but for a beautiful moment in time we created a lot of value for shareholders”
I rather liked this response to a Tweet I posted last night: That is Sam West, the actor. Ane the cartoonist, Tom Toro, then tweeted
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Greenwash will not do: proper accounting for the impact of the climate crisis is what we need now
This is an FT headline this morning: The article makes three things clear. The first is that business feels good about itself. The second is
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How corrupt is the UK?
Boris Johnson claimed yesterday that the UK is not remotely corrupt. The guffaws of disbelief could be heard all around the press conference to which
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Tax Inspectors Without Borders
Tax Inspectors Without Borders – a great joint OECD / UNDP programme in which John Christensen, formerly of the Tax Justice Network has played a
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Tax spillovers: the podcast
I have for the last two years or so been doing a lot of work on what my Sheffield University colleague Professor Andrew Baker and
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Are the big car companies the capitalist dinosaurs whose time has come if we are to beat climate change?
As the FT notes this morning: [D]espite months of pressure by the UK, four of the world’s five largest carmakers — Volkswagen, Toyota, the Renault-Nissan
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MPs should have to justify any second job they have, and seek prior approval before taking it
I admit that I might not be the best person to ask about someone having a second job. That I can recall, since 1985 I
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Greed is a threat to democracy
As many have reported, the US Federal Reserve has issued a warning on inflated asset prices overnight as US stock markets hit another new record
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