What should sanctions look like?
Wednesday, February 23rd, 2022Boris Johnson announced sanctions against Russia yesterday in response to its invasion of Ukraine that made him and his government looked like a laughingstock. Five
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The Tories have taken us to a place where those who cannot afford Covid healthcare are simply abandoned to their fate
Tuesday, February 22nd, 2022Boris Johnson’s press conference concerning his Covid plan was a staggering debacle yesterday. First, there is as such no plan. All that is actually happening
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The major oil companies are planning $38 billion of share buybacks. A tax of the same sum on them might be required in that case.
Monday, February 21st, 2022As the FT notes this morning: The seven supermajors — including BP, Shell, ExxonMobil and Chevron — are poised to return $38bn to shareholders through
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The UK has been corrupted and accountants, lawyers and bankers are to blame
Monday, February 21st, 2022Andrew Rawnsley wrote this in The Observer yesterday: Once upon a time, Britons would have been astonished and appalled to find scandal simultaneously bespoiling their
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Credit Suisse: what we need to know is whether there are problems now so that the corruption threat we face today can be eliminated
Monday, February 21st, 2022The Guardian and other newspapers around the world are going to town this m morning on the fact that they have another leak from banks
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We need a war on the corruption that lets world leaders think they can claim assets illicitly
Sunday, February 20th, 2022I have just Tweeted this thread: There is talk of war this morning. A thread…. Putin clearly agreed to take no action against Ukraine during
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Is the government conspiring to create inflation?
Friday, February 18th, 2022In my regular column for The National in Scotland, published yesterday, I put forward a hypothesis about the government’s attitude towards inflation. Much of the argument
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Companies House is currently a supplier of licensed identities available for the purposes of fraud and corruption
Thursday, February 17th, 2022Prof Prem Sikka, my old tax justice friend who now sits in the House of Lords as a Labour peer, has been asking a series
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An award opportunity for young tax researchers
Wednesday, February 16th, 2022Brigitte Alepin of the Canadian based TaxCOOP has drawn this to my attention: CA$ 10 000 prizes will be awarded to four projects with the
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