Please don't tell me the wealthy don't abuse tax
Tuesday, May 3rd, 2011As the Mail reported this weekend: Even though the developers behind swanky One Hyde Park revealed to The Mail on Sunday last year that they
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Senator Carl Levin on the launch of the US edition of Treasure Islands
Wednesday, April 13th, 2011The US edition of Nick Shaxsons’ book Treasure Islands was launched yesterday. Senator Carl Levin spoke at the launch, saying: Speech on Offshore Tax Havens
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Why the right can't be trusted
Tuesday, April 12th, 2011The Guardian has reported: Japan has raised the severity level of its nuclear crisis to the maximum seven, putting the emergency at the Fukushima Daiichi
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Clegg - deserving all the failure that awaits him in his future
Monday, April 11th, 2011Clegg seems to have got just about everything on NHS reofmr wrong. According to the Guardian: Clegg said GP practices would have to meet a
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Inter-island warfare: The Scillies v Jersey
Monday, April 11th, 2011The Isle of Scilly (for which I have considerable affection) have declared war on Jersey. Well, a war of wards at least: Tourism officials on
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The Conservatives show their true colours on tax havens: they're what we should aspire to, they say
Saturday, April 9th, 2011The Bermuda Royal Gazette reports: Bermuda is the “jewel in the crown” of the British Overseas Territories and is not a tax haven, according to
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Out of Sight
Friday, April 8th, 2011I have the following article in the latest edition of the London Review of Books: In his budget last month George Osborne announced that if
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UK Uncut are right in protesting - but it would have been better not to do so on Saturday
Monday, March 28th, 2011I’ve blogged about the enormous success of Saturday’s TUC rally. What about UK Uncut’s actions? As I’ve said many times before, I do not speak
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The budget - an overall summary - an admission of Osborne's failure
Wednesday, March 23rd, 2011This was a tedious budget marked by repetition after repetition of the little that Osborne had to say – much of which will add enormously
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