The morning after the budget reveals a Chancellor without a strategy and out of ideas
Thursday, March 4th, 2021The morning after the budget is always a moment of reckoning. For George Osborne it was when things usually began to unwind, badly. Do you
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A budget for the fairies
Wednesday, March 3rd, 2021The papers and the ‘usual’ commentators are in agreement that now is not the time to worry about debt. They’re also agree that there will
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This is a budget built on three fantasies
Wednesday, March 3rd, 2021I would love to think that this country is heading for good times again. Today’s budget is not going to deliver that outcome. There are
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The national debt paranoia
Tuesday, March 2nd, 2021It felt like the morning for a Twitter thread on the national debt. I just published this: We have just had another week when the
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Audit is in desperate need of reform
Saturday, February 27th, 2021Those of us who have an interest in audit reform (who I know are not the biggest group in society) have been awaiting a report
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Inflation is a figment of a few economist’s imaginations
Friday, February 26th, 2021As some readers, and maybe more of my Twitter followers will know, Prof David Blanchflower of Dartmouth College (who is always known as Danny) and
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Public country-by-country reporting has been approved in the European Union
Friday, February 26th, 2021As Transparency International reported yesterday afternoon on an issue very close to my heart: Transparency International EU, the Brussels office of the global movement against
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Has the time for global tax justice arrived?
Thursday, February 25th, 2021I share this blog from Alex Cobham, originally published on the Tax Justice Network website. My first ten or so years of campaigning were almost
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We need a Ministry of Tax
Thursday, February 25th, 2021The FT has reported this morning that: A Treasury decision to hold a “tax day” three weeks after the Budget will be a bellwether for
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