The Pandora Papers continue to draw attention to tax abuse. As I mentioned yesterday, the real need is to mention solutions though. We have known
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The Pandora Papers are old news: the question is whether the measures now being taken are already impacting what is happening offshore?
I have not given the so-called Pandora Papers that are exciting some of the media and the tax justice movement much attention. There are a number
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We need to know which audits are not up to scratch
As the FT has noted this morning: As they say in the opening paragraphs of the story: The UK accounting regulator is under pressure to
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The ability of neoliberal economics to crush the lifeblood out of an economy and the people of a country has not ended as yet
My column in The National this week came out last night instead of being in its usual Friday slot: My argument is: One big issue
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Johnson and Sunak are in trouble. They are not only defending the indefensible. They are being called out by the BBC for doing so.
For the second morning in a row I have watched a leading Tory politician being given a hard time by a BBC television journalist. Yesterday
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The right to disagree
The Observer commentator Nick Cohen is not much loved by many on the left it seems to me. That’s because he is a liberal. But
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The government still has to decide who to prioritise: is it people, wages and jobs or landlords and an over-inflated financial system?
I wrote what follows below in May 2020. The coronavirus was then developing – but the reality of lockdown, social distancing and much else was
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The threat from crypto
I am sharing this blog from the IMF, simply because I think it really important: Crypto Boom Poses New Challenges to Financial Stability By Dimitris Drakopoulos, Fabio
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Fighting for competition
I post this from my friends and colleagues at The Counterbalance, with their permission: Taking on vested interests in Greece Anti-monopoly regulators can be powerful,
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