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Britain lacks economic dynamism

Britain’s economy needs to be more innovative; more firms need to be created , take a risk and allowed to fail.

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2023/sep/25/great-british-slowdown-has-hamstrung-our-economy-thinktank

25th September 2023

Stopping multi-nationals avoiding tax

At last someone in power is proposing to tackle the evil of tax havens

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2021/apr/08/biden-proposes-global-reforms-to-end-profit-shifting-to-tax-havens

8th April 2021

Inequality and the super rich

Simon Jenkins argues that the time has come to impose a surtax on the super-rich

https://www.theguardian.com/news/commentisfree/2021/jan/26/covid-inequality-worse-squeeze-super-rich

26th January 2021

The perils of too much Finance

Nicholas Shaxson argues that once the Financial sector grows too big it has negative effects on the economy

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/oct/29/shrink-city-london-criminal-financial-sector

29th October 2019

Land Laws

The inequality of land distribution and what we should do about it

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/jun/04/tackle-inequality-land-ownership-laws

4th June 2019

The City of London invented offshore

How the city of financiers developed tax havens 

https://www.theguardian.com/news/2018/sep/07/the-real-goldfinger-the-london-banker-who-broke-the-world

18th September 2018

The Tax Haven of Nevis

A sinister haven for the super-rich

https://www.theguardian.com/news/2018/jul/12/nevis-how-the-worlds-most-secretive-offshore-haven-refuses-to-clean-up

17th July 2018

How Britain let Russia hide its dirty money

https://www.theguardian.com/news/2018/may/25/how-britain-let-russia-hide-its-dirty-money

25th May 2018

Philanthropic billionaires

How we are drifting from democracy towards being at the beck and call of the rich

https://www.theguardian.com/news/2018/may/24/the-trouble-with-charitable-billionaires-philanthrocapitalism

24th May 2018