From an email from the FT just received: The second article is by Martin Wolf and he is broadly right: he is suggesting regulation is
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Bercow: parliamentary democracy at work
Last Thursday I wrote a blog entitled ‘It all comes down to Bercow’. I did so having watched Parliament the evening beforehand and having realised
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Introversion: a part of the solution
This was posted as a comment on the blog last night by someone using the name Dambrill. I thought the name was apt. And so
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What would a world that was different, and which was better, look like?
It is a strange morning when the country is in constitutional crisis; across the world there are people mourning deaths caused by those who have
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The best way to reform corporation tax? That’s the only basis that reflects where all their activities take place
A found an odd postscript to last week’s exchanges with Mike Devereux on corporation tax reform in the letter’s page of the FT where I
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The public do take notice of a company’s tax affairs when deciding how to shop
Part of academic life involves reading other people’s papers. This one caught my attention: Consumer reactions to tax avoidance: Evidence from the United States and
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London: 28 March, ‘Moneyland’ with Oliver Burrough
I am pleased to share this one, relating to an event at 6pm on 28 March at City, University of London: Oliver Bullough is a journalist and author
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£100 billion of secretly owned property in the UK: another price of offshore
Yesterday I noted that 3 million people in the UK own at least 5.7 million offshore bank accounts according to HMRC. Overnight Global Witness issued
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Is it time to tackle discrimination against introverts?
As some will be aware, there has been a discussion of introversion going on in the comments section of this blog as a result of
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