A political commitment to transparency has to be our reaction to this war. Our contribution to ‘never again’, if you like.
Sunday, March 6th, 2022I have just posted this thread on Twitter: To pretend that the world is anything like that we lived in two or so weeks ago.
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The UK government is falling way short in its planning for climate change. War cannot be used as an excuse for not doing better. This too is an existential threat
Friday, March 4th, 2022Two parliamentary reports this week tell the same story about the government’s preparedness for climate change. As the FT notes this morning: The UK will
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The UK can no longer afford hollowed out firms
Friday, March 4th, 2022The FT noted earlier this week that: Directors must take corporate culture more seriously following recent company failures, according to the head of the UK
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The minimum level of business disclosure that we need in the UK if we are to beat dirty money
Tuesday, March 1st, 2022Yesterday afternoon I made the mistake of watching Kwan’s Kwarteng, the Business Secretary, announce in the House of Commons what he claimed to be the
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Why are the Big 4 firms of accountants still operating in Russia?
Tuesday, March 1st, 2022I checked the websites of the Big 4 firms of accountants in Russia this morning. None of these firms (PWC, EY, Deloitte, KPMG, with links
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BP should be putting its cards more clearly face up on the table: what's really happening on Rosneft is not clear
Monday, February 28th, 2022Much fuss was made yesterday about BP (or bp as it now prefers to call itself after what was, presumably, a very expensive rebranding exercise)
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Everything has changed. We are now living in a wartime economy and the government needs to change almost all its economic policies to suit that new situation.
Friday, February 25th, 2022As the FT has noted this morning: UK consumer confidence plunged in February and many measures of spending remained below pre-pandemic levels as surging living
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Pecunia Non Olet: The Londongrad Laundromat Reprieved
Friday, February 25th, 2022I post this article by John Warren, who is a regular commentator on his blog, with permission of John and the editor of Bella Caledonia,
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Sunak is not a low tax chancellor
Thursday, February 24th, 2022According to Politico: Rishi Sunak will lay his claim to be a “low tax” chancellor in a speech today as he delivers the annual Mais
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