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We don't disagree there at all. Pretty much agree with everything, especially the problem with New Labour. Mandelson always likes to point out the qualifier -- "so long as they pay their taxes" -- to his "we're intensely relaxed about people getting filthy rich". Problem is that they didn't...

Yes, it was Switzerland that began the practice after WW1. 'The UK' has had a longer history of financial and tax obfuscation, which stretches all the way back to the founding of the Bank of England in 1694, and the investments in slavery and colonialism associated with it, from which the...

There's some divergence from this latest report from a civil society organisation. I was surprised by, but not dismissive of, the HMRC calculations of £35bn. This is because I've been following the Tax Justice Network for a while. There is a difference in what data they use for their...

Can you send a link to this or, failing that, the file's title so I can have a look please (the link in your original email doesn't work for me, at the very least).

Thanks for posting. A couple of questions: 1, do you think that the Conservatives are well placed to do anything about this, or is their plan to 'conserve' things? If you go for the former, you'll have to (try and) explain how. 2, do you think that Brexit was a ploy (organised and funded by Tory...

This started off well, went downhill rapidly, and then got to the nub of things. The left are fully aware that finance holds the key. It's doing something about it that's a tad trickier, given that finance has exceeded and escaped national borders and, currently, there's nothing that national...

You've missed something off: the public will either ignore it, register it but feel incapable of acting upon it, pick up on some insignificant detail about it (eg Blair) and anyone who does provide explanations for how to confront it will be dismissed as not having sufficient plans to be able to...