{"id":95802,"date":"2026-09-19T07:40:58","date_gmt":"2026-09-19T06:40:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=95802"},"modified":"2026-09-19T07:40:58","modified_gmt":"2026-09-19T06:40:58","slug":"accountability","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2026\/09\/19\/accountability\/","title":{"rendered":"Accountability?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I appreciated that there was discussion on the BBC - and other channels - yesterday about the possibility that our supposed Head of State might be lying about what happened after the death of Diana, Princess of Wales.<\/p>\n<p>The details of the spats in question do not greatly trouble me, although I have little doubt about who is telling the truth.<\/p>\n<p>The real issue is that the possibility that the probity of someone in high office - who happens to be King - is being openly questioned.<\/p>\n<p>On the same day that the possibility of MI5 being held to account for contempt of court was raised, the idea of accountability being on the agenda makes a very welcome change.<\/p>\n<p>Now, when will ministers be held accountable for their support for genocide in Gaza?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I appreciated that there was discussion on the BBC &#8211; and other channels &#8211; yesterday about the possibility that our supposed Head of State might<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2026\/09\/19\/accountability\/\"><em> Read the full article&#8230;<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-95802","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-corruption","category-ethics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95802","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=95802"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95802\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":95815,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95802\/revisions\/95815"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}