My letter to the FT on audit recruitment problems: these will continue so long a auditors are seen as the “whitewashers” of the status quo
Wednesday, January 5th, 2022The FT has a letter from me in it today. This was written in response to an article in which PWC complained that it was
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Being calm as a revolutionary act
Monday, January 3rd, 2022I saw this on Facebook yesterday. It’s from something that looks a bit like a self-help book, but which also seems to be based on
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The last thing that we need in 2022 is a poll tax on energy consumption
Thursday, December 30th, 2021The FT reports this morning that: Households facing a “cost of living catastrophe”, including soaring gas and electricity charges, in April could yet be spared
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Shouldn't we be discussing the future of the monarchy?
Thursday, December 30th, 2021I am not greatly interested in royalty, usually. The last twenty-four hours has interested me much more than usual. Firstly, the Ghislaine Maxwell verdict clearly
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The economic insanity of record stock market prices during the omicron crisis
Wednesday, December 29th, 2021This is from the Guardian this morning: This is a definition of economic insanity. We are still in a pandemic. The economy has far from
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The government has to act on a Covid lockdown today. By tomorrow it has to say what it will do to support the economy, which is likely to crash in January. Nothing less will do.
Sunday, December 19th, 2021I posted this thread on Twitter this morning: I have already suggested in a blog post written this morning that today is pivotal to what
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The future direction of tax justice
Friday, December 17th, 2021I noted my reasons for concern about the direction in which the tax justice movement is moving on this blog yesterday. I described the strategy
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Taxing the multi-millionaires – Charging capital gains tax on death
Friday, December 17th, 2021The UK tax system is biased in favour of the wealthiest people in the country. Amongst the many ways in which this is apparent is
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It is impossible to overstate the malevolence of Johnson and Sunak
Thursday, December 16th, 2021After the last 21 months it is hard to say this, but it is unambiguously true that at this moment we are facing the biggest
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