The Corporate Accountability Network Audit Briefings - background to the series
Friday, November 19th, 2021As many readers of this blog will know, I am also a director of the Corporate Accountability Network (CAN). CAN has done a lot of work
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What is the Tax Justice Network playing at by demanding that the UN take over responsibility for international tax deals?
Thursday, November 18th, 2021I noted the concerns I have with the credibility of the calculations within the Tax Justice Network’s State of Tax Justice report for 2021 yesterday.
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The Tories social care cap is a deeply regressive wealth tax that will hit those with least the most
Thursday, November 18th, 2021There are two ways to view the government. One is that it is one continual cock-up after another. There is a lot of evidence for
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Bad people find ways round whatever rules there are
Tuesday, November 16th, 2021In a letter to The Times this morning all the living former Cabinet Secretaries co-signed a letter demanding an enhanced Code of Conduct on behaviour
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We have a supposedly wealthy world that looks to be fundamentally feudal that has been created by financial engineering and tax incentives. So now we need to change the rules.
Monday, November 15th, 2021The McKinsey Global Institute has produced a new report on wealth. I have not read all the detail as yet – but strongly suspect I
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COP 26 failed. We need not. But w have to get on with beating the forces that want to kill life in earth. Time is not our side.
Sunday, November 14th, 2021I admit that I have been struggling to find appropriate words to write since it became apparent that COP26 really would not deliver anything like
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The Green New Deal is about unification around a new vision of society
Saturday, November 13th, 2021This letter from my fellow Green New FDeal Group members, Caroline Lucas MP and Clive Lewis MP, was in the Guardian today, referring to the
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Greenwash will not do: proper accounting for the impact of the climate crisis is what we need now
Thursday, November 11th, 2021This is an FT headline this morning: The article makes three things clear. The first is that business feels good about itself. The second is
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How corrupt is the UK?
Thursday, November 11th, 2021Boris Johnson claimed yesterday that the UK is not remotely corrupt. The guffaws of disbelief could be heard all around the press conference to which
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