Why are we letting states subsidise savings in what look like Ponzi schemes?
Thursday, February 3rd, 2022As the FT has reported in an email this morning: Shares in [Meta, the owner of Facebook] plummeted more than 20 per cent in after-hours
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The Pope understands the significance of tax transparency: we just now need to get the world's governments to do so as well
Wednesday, February 2nd, 2022The Pope spoke to Italian tax collectors yesterday and had some important points to make, of which the most significant was, I think, this: I
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I very much doubt that the Chief Secretary to the Treasury reported the correct cost of a 1% interest rise to the government this morning
Monday, January 31st, 2022I have posted this thread to Twitter: Simon Clarke MP, who is Chief Secretary to the Treasury claimed in several broadcast interviews this morning that
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We need a Great Reform
Saturday, January 29th, 2022I have posted this thread on Twitter this morning: We witnessed an attempted coup this week. A prime minister who has very obviously broken the
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Why the rich got richer - an inadequate explanation from the BBC
Wednesday, January 26th, 2022I watched this programme on BBC2 last night: For those with an hour to spare and the ability to withstand the frustration of watching it
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The government is unable to say why it did not put basic checks to tackle Covid fraud in place
Wednesday, January 26th, 2022Further to my blog post yesterday, quoting Lord Prem Sikka, who I have worked with for twenty years on tax justice issues, I note this
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Total government losses to error and fraud are not £29bn as Lord Agnew suggested - they are much bigger than that, and they turn a deliberate blind eye to it
Tuesday, January 25th, 2022Lord Agnew resigned yesterday suggesting in the process that government losses to fraud were at least £29 billion a year. I am afraid I have
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Sunak is Chancellor, but clearly not grown up enough to accept the responsibility for being so
Monday, January 24th, 2022The trend within this government for ministers to deny responsibility for their actions is growing: https://twitter.com/Telegraph/status/1485353895182409735?s=20 Now Sunak is saying “It wasn’t me who wanted
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The government has to stop subsidising the dead money of the wealthy and put money to life transforming lives instead
Sunday, January 23rd, 2022A thread, posted on Twitter this morning, partly in response to all that Jack Monroe has said this week, and partly in response to suggestions
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